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Once she opened the door, her life would forever be divided into before and after.
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“All indentured servants, both European and African, agreed to work off their debt for seven to fifteen years. After that, they were to be released and given five acres of land each, a bushel of seed, and the freedom to pursue their own fortunes in the New World.”
― Yellow Crocus
― Yellow Crocus
“Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Our forebears were quite clear on the matter: slaves are only three-fifths of a man. They are not entitled to the same rights as Christians.”
― Yellow Crocus
― Yellow Crocus
“Life is either a collision of random events, like billiard balls during a break careening off and into one another, or if you are so inclined to believe, our predetermined fate—what my mother took such great comfort in calling God’s will.”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“In addition, social status for slaves transferred from mother to child rather than from father to child, so regardless of your father’s status, you would be a slave if your mother was enslaved. Those changes in social codes ensured eighteenth-century planters of Virginia a steady supply of workers.”
― Yellow Crocus
― Yellow Crocus
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