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How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail

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What Do You Think About Enslaved Women?

We don't know what any of the relationships between the women and their enslavers look like, because we don't have anything in their own words describing those relationships. But i think that their management of parts of the slave trade business is really interesting thing to look at. Once mary had children, her focus in lumpkin's jail and in her life must have been on protecting them. So her children were born enslaved like her, but they were born into a certain amount of privilege in that they were able to stay with their mother. And that may be because she worked so hard to keep them. I mean, in some ways, she was very isolated from other enslaved women because of

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