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Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.
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Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.
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The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.
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I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over