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I resisted. I was so young, I did not know any better. I was furious to be ripped from my luxurious bed, my clothes, my toys, the people I knew. After having packed two small bindles, we went [...]

My uncle, who is my mother’s brother, worried that I might have no children. In that case, the estate I inherited from my grandmother the warrior would go to a remote cousin of my husband. [...]

My grandmother left her entire estate to her daughter and descendants on the condition that she bear the name of her family and stay on the land when married. She willed the male offspring to [...]