Sometimes such an experience bound one person to another; just as often the shame of one’s powerlessness made all witnesses into enemies. Ava and Mabel did not get along.
“Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and consequence to any other incidence of human enslavement.”
― Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
― Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
“Remember that some rules are meant to be broken.”
― Go To Hell
― Go To Hell
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