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A Footslave's Reminiscences

90 year old Albert, one of the last surviving former-footslaves, was being interviewed by 21 year old Amelia – a student of history at the ‘Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s College of Central Barbaria’ (‘YL&GCCB’) in the Democratic Republic of Barbaria. She was interviewing him as part of her dissertation on ‘Male Slavery in the former Gynarchy of Barbaria’ , and felt it was a real privilege to hear first hand, from a real-life former slave, just what it was like to be a male slave in the once female-dominated State. This was so much more interesting than merely reading about the former male-slavery days in dusty, old books, or looking at old film and video of those times. And Amelia was determined to extract as much information as she possibly could from the old man in order to get a grade ‘A’ for her dissertation, which she desperately needed in order to qualify to be a teacher of Barbarian history – her chosen career. Amelia, a very slim and studious-looking young, white woman wit