Experience of a Female Slave

Betty Chessier was raised in the abject poverty and privation that so characterized Black America in the late nineteenth century. Her father had met her mother when his master came to visit Chessier's master. Because her father was only able to visit when his master brought him, Chessier only saw him sporadically. This also meant that while she had three sisters and two brothers, none of them were full siblings. These half-siblings were given to the master's children when they were married, so she was separated from them. She also never met, or at the very least did not remember, her grandmother and grandfather. Thus, we can see that Betty Chessier's slave upbringing isolated her completely from her family: she rarely saw her father, never met her grandparents, was separated from her siblings when they were given away, and did not spend much time with her mother due to her obligations as a house slave.

Nevertheless, Chessier had the relative good fortune of being a house slave, and living in the city. Indeed, for slaves "

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