It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped for liberty

If any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty. I shall remember how you thrust me backroughly and violently thrust me backinto the redroom, and locked me up there, to my dying day; though I was in agony; though I cried out, while suffocating with distress, Have mercy Have mercy, Aunt Reed And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck meknocked me down for nothing.