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You can think of B-D-S-and-M as kinky flaves, which one can order up mild to extra-spicy, to taste.
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Hence the idea of Jbuthern preponderance — Virginia influence. — the yoking of the rfpeftable yeomanry of the north, with the negro-flaves, to the Qr of fouthern nabobs.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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From thence the Dutch come fometimes hither to purchafe flaves.
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They are commonly of a lidlefs and lazy temper j but this ought chiefly to be afcribed to their education, and the number of flaves, of both fexes, that they always have to wait upon them.
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Thefe are either the offspring of European mothers, or of oriental female flaves, who having firft been miftreffes to Europeans, have afterwards been married to them, and have been converted to Chriftianity, or at leaft have affumed the name of Chridians.
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In common with moft of the women in India they cherifh a mofl exceflive jealoufy of their hufbands, and of thdr female flaves.
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Having thus fatiated their anger upon thdr flaves, thdr next ohjeGt is to take equal revenge upon their hufbands,, which they do in a manner lefs cruel and more pleafant to themfelves.
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Travellers accufe the Georgiansofdrunkcnnefs, ruperftition, cru - eky, lloth, avarice, and cowardice; vicci which are every where common to flaves and tyrants, and are by no means peculiar to the natives of this country.
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The next morning we were conduc - ed to the dey's, who having chofen an eighth part of the flaves for the fervice of the public, the reft of us were driven to the market-place for the fale of Chriftians/who are difpofed of by way of audion.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
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It has Ween common among all heathen nations to treat their women as flaves, and their children in infan - cy, with little tendernefs.
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