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Definition
a group made up of government representatives (usually elected) that has the power to create laws
- But what cared the legislators of the "dominant race" for the blood they were crushing out of trampled hearts?40 — The Fugitive Slave Law (26% in)
- 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!40 — The Fugitive Slave Law (86% in)
There are no more uses of "legislature" in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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