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Ilyon Woo
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Ilyon Woo
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The House of Eve
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Best Historical Fiction
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“Webster was the only Senator who had his own drinking room inside the Capitol, and he carried among his possessions an exquisitely painted miniature of a woman’s glowing breasts—a self-portrait by the painter Sarah Goodridge, who presented the gift when Webster was newly widowed, and between his first and second wives.”
― Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
― Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
“He developed a hatred “not for true Christianity,” as he would later recall, “but for slaveholding piety,”
― Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
― Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
“It was possible in these times to mortgage a person as one would mortgage a house. Buyers could pay for slaves by making an initial down payment and taking on a mortgage to pay the remainder, with interest. They could also take out a mortgage on the people they already owned, using their human property as collateral. As with real estate, they could rent out those they enslaved, adding improvements—such as apprenticeships—which increased their value. As with a house, however, human property was also subject to foreclosure, and this is precisely what happened to William and Eliza.”
― Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
― Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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