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Here is an excerpt from a book I recently read, "Let Us Descend," by Jesmyn Ward.

 

 "They brand you," Esther told me. "They brand you with the fleur-de-lis on your face," she said, "so everybody, every person who sees you, knows you done fled and got caught. They put chains on your feet, make you walk with stell bracelets 'til they grow into your skin. They put collars on you, metal collars that eat your neck, make little necklaces of sores. And that's if they don't shoot you, if they don't hang you, if they don't slit your throat because you had the gall to take yourself back."