Fall 2014 December 2, 2014 Love, Loss and Sacrifice During the 1800’s, Dessa was a Black, enslaved, pregnant woman who lived on the plantation, and she experienced love, loss and sacrifice, which I will discuss in this paper. At this time, enslavement was a part of her everyday life. Her life of being bought and sold to a slave master was dehumanizing as a woman. She had struggles on this planation that came in many different forms dealing with Miz Rufel. She found love in her child that she gave…
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