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(Mary Boykin Chestnut’s diary, 1861)
(Rose Williams’s Story in the Federal Writers’ Project Interviews, 1941.)
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== Rose Williams’s Story in the Federal Writers’ Project Interviews, 1941. ==
 
== Rose Williams’s Story in the Federal Writers’ Project Interviews, 1941. ==
 
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The introduction to this narrative stated that it was in a slave woman’s best interest to have children because it decreased her likelihood of being sold. The benefits are not so clear in Rose Williams’s case because her owner did not let her choose her partner. I think this provides a good example to show that slavery could be a quid pro quo relationship. Rose’s owner did something nice for her, bought her along with her parents, and then used that as a bargaining tool to get what he wanted out of her. Of course the slaveholder always had the upper hand, but I think it is important to note that some bargaining occurred. As I was reading for another class, I came across a slave woman who remarked about her master: “I own him and he owns me.” The master-slave relationship was anything but simple.  –Allison Luthern
 
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== Lucinda, a free woman, requests reenslavement, 1813 ==
 
== Lucinda, a free woman, requests reenslavement, 1813 ==

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