Slavery. It's such a vile and despicable word to mention. To even think of it is to make you seem ... almost inhuman. Yes, I took history classes back in college. I know something about what white people did to Black-Americans: transporting them like cattle in the crypt of ships and bringing them to come suffer in this country of ours, making them work under the sun night and day, lashing their backs and separating the men from their children ... it's abhorring to think that whites like myself, generations before me, ever did such things to other people.
Imagine how I felt when it got done to me.
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Catherine's eyes blinked awake momentarily. She was lying on her side with her head resting under her palms, her legs curled upward; everything around her was dark and shaking. She was con
