![]() ![]() ![]() that Glenelg's slaves were in love with their master, that they couldn't bear to be without him." Jean Paulhan, Happiness in Slavery About two hundred Negroes of both sexes, all of whom had recently been emancipated by the Proclamation of March, came one morning to beg their former master, a certain Glenelg, to take them back into bondage. "In the course of the year 183 8, the peaceful island of Barbados was rocked by a strange and bloody revolt. Something that men have always reproached them with: that they never cease obeying their nature, the call of their blood, that everything in them, even their minds, is sex." Jean Paulhan, Happiness in Slavery, preface to The Story of O, by Pauline de Reage At last a woman who admits it! Who admits what? Something that women have always till now refused to admit (and today more than ever before). ![]()
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