Tina

A thin young woman, very dark skinned and with a shaved head had been using one of the women’s bunks
She knew not to get involved but the young slave was so pathetic in appearance, in a ragged and dirty smock, with not even a pair of sandals for her feet.
Obeah – black magic, voodoo
Chapter 11
Helen already knew much of Tina’s story too. The young woman had told them about her life in what was known as the backdam, a word that mean “out in the sticks” in Guyanese. She was from a village called Paradise, and that was all there was to it for her. She had been too poor to go to school, had been raised by an aunt who had six children of her own and had had an upbringing that sounded so harsh and neglectful that being sold into slavery probably hadn’t been much of a shock.
Family
‘Me uncle used to sleep with a chicken,’ pronounced Tina. Helen looked up from her work, but apparently that was all Tina had to say on that.
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