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the child of a white man would not be freed based upon patriarchal genealogy. The following passages sketch the nature of the master-slave relations, and their wives felt, but the outlet of their aggressions often became the slave girl. Sterling, ed., We are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, p. 24)
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