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Girlhood and its Sorrows
Sent at fourteen to a master in North Carolina, Keckley recounts the savage beatings she resisted, the four years of persecution that made her a mother, and her own girlhood letter home.
The Bingham beatings and her resistanceSexual persecution and the birth of her son GeorgeHer 1838 letter to her mother from Hillsboro'Dignity under abuse