Amelia Cortez’s Reviews > The Kitchen House > Status Update

I just now realized that Marshall is exactly like my dad was. SA’d by a trusted male several times as a child, using alcohol as a coping mechanism to deal with that trauma, and a lot of anger towards women as a result. 💀 Poor Lavinia is too naive to realize what she’s getting herself into.

“There’s not a day go by that I don’t say, “Thank you, Lawd, for sendin’ me up to the big house and for givin’ me the cap’n for my masta. I know there nothin’ right about being a slave, but who am I gonna tell that story to?”

“You girls watch me close. I act like I don’t have no mind of my own, except how to make everybody in the big house happy. That because I mean to stay up there, and I tryin’ hard to keep you girls with me.”