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Quotes from Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade — Manu Herbstein

born 1936 South Africa

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No one knows what the elephant ate to make it so big.

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001)

He sees every female slave as just a vagina on two legs, she thought bitterly, not for the first time.

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001)

Curiosity is unbecoming in the female sex. This girl's curiosity surely comes from your teaching her to read. An ability to read is prejudicial in any woman, in a slave doubly and triply so. It opens them to ideas unsuited to their station in life.

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001)

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