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The novel begins with the imprisonment of Dessa in a sheriff 's cellar . She is imprisoned for participating in a slave revolt on a slave coffle in which five white men are killed and Wilson , a trader , is maimed . It all starts when Robert Steele , the master of the farm s the slaves to get to work and in anger attacks and kills Kaine , one of the slaves , when he hits him on the head by a shovel . Dessa responds...
She would have found social resistance and parental pressure in getting married off and fulfilling the social chores as a home maker than of being a professional writer or dramatist . Pursuing writing as a career would have been so unheard of that she would have had to be outrageously rebellious or ashamed of her urge to express herself and write and keep them in secrecy as Judith as depicted as having done . Her personal growth would have been obstructed by...
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