"No more slavery! She had to laugh! 'These new ones have Letter of the Law. Same
thing. They got magistrate. They got fine. They got jail house and chain gang They got
tread machine to mash up people's feet. New ones worse than old ones - more cunning,
that's all. (p.24) – answer Christophine
'Keep them then, you cheating N-word,' I said, for I was tired, and the water I had
swallowed made me feel sick. 'I can get more if I want to: (p. 22) - answer Antoinette
'Don't you like it here? This is my place and everything is on our side. Once,' she said, 'I
used to sleep with a piece of wood by my side so that I could defend myself if I were
attacked. That's how afraid I was!' - answer Antoinette
'Yes,' she said. 'Then Richard came in and you laughed. I didn't like the way you
laughed.' - answer Antoinette
'Is it true,' she said, 'that England is like a dream? Because one of my friends who
married an Englishman wrote and told me so. She said this place London is like a cold
dark dream sometimes. I want to wake up.' - answer Antoinette
'Not horse piss like the English madams drink,' she said. 'I know them. Drink, drink their
yellow horse piss, talk, talk their lying talk.' – answer Christophine
'Not those. The fer de lance of course, but there are none here,' and added, 'but how
can they be sure? Do you think they know?' Then, 'Our snakes are not poisonous. Of
course not! - answer Antoinette
'If I could die. Now, when I am happy Would you do that? You wouldn't have to kill me.
Say die and I will die. You don't believe me? Then try, try, say die and watch me die.' -
answer Antoinette
'It was a song about a white cockroach. That's me. That's what they call all of us who
were here before their own people in Africa sold them to the slave traders. And I've
heard English women call us white N-word. So between you I often wonder who I am
and where is my country and where do I belong and why was I ever born at all. Will you
go now please. I must dress like Christophine said' - answer Antoinette
'Christophine, he does not love me, I think he hates me. He always sleeps in his
dressing-room now and the servants know. If I get angry he is scornful and silent,
sometimes he does not speak to me for hours and I cannot endure it any more, I
cannot. What shall I do? He was not like that at first,' - answer Antoinette
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