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> [Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colson-whitehead/being-a-slave-meant-never-having-the-stability-of-knowing-your-family-2/)

[Colson Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colson-whitehead/)

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