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"No matter whether the sl*ve girl be as black as ebony or as fair as her mistress. In either case, there is no shadow of law to protect her from insult, from carnage, or even from demiaw; all these are inflicted by fiends who bear the shape of men."
Examine this quotation from Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography. According to Jacobs, who or what protected enslaved girls?
A. Nothing
B. Men
C. Having light-colored skin
D. The law
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A. Nothing
Jacobs explicitly says "there is no shadow of law to protect her" and describes the perpetrators as "fiends who bear the shape of men," meaning enslaved girls had no protection.
Jacobs explicitly says "there is no shadow of law to protect her" and describes the perpetrators as "fiends who bear the shape of men," meaning enslaved girls had no protection.
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