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That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn’t matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
– Lawrence Hill

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