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• Antoinette laments the loss of her father, of regular visitors, of feeling safe in her home, as all things that now belong to the past.
• Emancipation Act,
• Antoinette addresses the reader as if we are insiders who would understand these distinctions naturally. This mode of address is a central feature of her narration, and it means that many key truths are implied rather than stated directly.
• troubled understanding of freedom
• The parallel superstitions of the white and black populations regarding Mr. Luttrell’s abandoned estate indicate the close, if fraught, relationship between these two cultural groups.

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