Slavery
Byline: Ex-Slave Gordon
You’ve seen me. You’ve seen me many times and would like to forget. But you can’t. I won’t let you. More importantly, the people who did this wanted everyone to remember I belonged to them and when I escaped they and their bloodhounds chased me several days through mosquito-filled swamps and forests and dragged me…
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This story appears in the collection “In Other Hands”
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