The Book of Negroes

what is the context behind this quote - That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter; in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

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As a slave you are invisible:stripped of all identity. You no longer have a past or a future. Your only reality is indentured servitude-you are a non-person.

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