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Which parts of this excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs that signifies that idea that even the "kind" slaveholders still regard their slaves as slaves

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Answer:1. After a brief period of suspense, the will of my mistress was read, and we learned that she had bequeathed me to her sister's daughter, a child of five years old

2. Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block.

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After a brief period of suspense, the will of my mistress was read, and we learned that she had bequeathed me to her sister's daughter, a child of five years old. So vanished our hopes.
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