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They seemed to like him, hold him in contempt, and fear him all at the same time[…]I had thought my feelings were complicated because he and I had such a strange relationship. But then, slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships. Only the overseer drew simple, unconflicting emotions of hatred and fear[…]it was part of the overseer’s job to be hated and feared while the master kept his hands clean.
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Lizzi
is on page 223 of 288
I could recall feeling relief at seeing the house, feeling that I had come home. And having to stop and correct myself, remind myself that I was in an alien, dangerous place.
“Somehow, I always seem to forgive him for what he does to me. I can’t hate him the way I should until I see him doing things to other people”
— 21 hours, 20 min ago
“Somehow, I always seem to forgive him for what he does to me. I can’t hate him the way I should until I see him doing things to other people”
Lizzi
is on page 177 of 288
I knew a little towns and rivers miles away—and it hadn’t done me a damned bit of good! What had Weylin said? That educated didn’t mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.
— Jan 28, 2026 08:40PM
Lizzi
is on page 169 of 288
Waylon, for instance, had known just how far to push Sarah. He had only sold three of her children—left her one to live for and protect.
— Jan 28, 2026 08:36PM
Lizzi
is on page 149 of 288
I was beginning to realize that he loved the woman—to her misfortune. There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one.
She had done the safe thing—had accepted a life of slavery because she was afraid[…]the frightened powerless woman who had already lost all she could stand to lose, and who knew as little about the freedom of the North as she knew about the hereafter”
— Jan 27, 2026 04:48PM
She had done the safe thing—had accepted a life of slavery because she was afraid[…]the frightened powerless woman who had already lost all she could stand to lose, and who knew as little about the freedom of the North as she knew about the hereafter”
Lizzi
is on page 114 of 288
“Or if I had to stay here, why couldn’t I just turn these two kids away, turn off my conscience, and be a coward, safe and comfortable?”
— Jan 26, 2026 10:02AM
Lizzi
is on page 101 of 288
“‘The kids are just imitating what they’ve seen adults doing,’” he said. “They don’t understand…”
“They don’t have to understand. Even the games they play are preparing them for their future-and that future will come whether they understand it or not.”
“The ease seemed so frightening”…“Us, the children…I never realized how realism people could be trained to accept slavery”
— Jan 25, 2026 07:50PM
“They don’t have to understand. Even the games they play are preparing them for their future-and that future will come whether they understand it or not.”
“The ease seemed so frightening”…“Us, the children…I never realized how realism people could be trained to accept slavery”
