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I ’member how my master used to would come and get my sister, make her take a bath and comb her hair, and take her down in the quarter all night, den have de nerve to come around de next day and ask her how she feel.” Sexual violence was ubiquitous throughout slavery, and it followed enslaved women wherever they went. 😞😭

Note for self - 5 hours 15 mins in

The chapter on the Angola prison was such a depressing view into our country.