CHAPTER TWELVE
A Slave Revolt and I Fall into the Hands of a Degenerate Master
When the women gathered to gossip in the way I have explained those who owned slaves brought them along which meant I met many from all over the island. We usually had a chance to speak to each other at the end of a session just before we dispersed.
It soon became apparent that the slaves had many grievances and grudges and that a mood of rebellion was in the air. The girls complained about being r***d and abused and both sexes had a sense of grievance about the excessive physical punishments and other humiliations meted out to them. Much of this discontent was aimed at the chief who granted slaves no right of appeal and whose despotic authority underpinned the regime of cruelty that pervaded the island. He w
