They labor day by day, and year by year, side by side, in the same field, if haply their daughters are permitted to remain on the same plantation with them, instead of being as they often are, separated from their parents and sold into distant states, never again to meet on earth.
Grimké describes the harsh realities faced by enslaved mothers and daughters who are often separated from each other.
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