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Part Two: Thomas Thistlewood: Slave Plantation Owner and Diarist

Behind the Bastards

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Bess: Intellectual Curiosity Suppressed by Abuse

They recount Bess's story, her tasks collecting books, curiosity with telescopes, and Thistlewood's sexual abuse beginning in adolescence.

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