Both Uses of
legislature
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- But what cared the legislators of the "dominant race" for the blood they were crushing out of trampled hearts?†
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- But how few mothers would have consented to have one of their own babes become a fugitive, for the sake of a poor, hunted nurse, on whom the legislators of the country had let loose the bloodhounds!†
Chpt 40
Definition:
a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws