“The day I came squealing and squalling into the world was the first time someone tried to kill me. I guess it should have been obvious to everyone right then that I wasn't going to have a normal life.” Alternate HistoryInfanticideJustina Ireland Book:Dread Nation Source: Dread Nation
“It was the midwife that tried to do me in. Truth be told, it wasn't really her fault. What else is a good Christian woman going to do when a Negro comes flying out from between the legs of the richest white woman in Haller County, Kentucky?” RacismChildbirthAlternate HistoryMidwifery Book:Dread Nation Source: Dread Nation
“And I suppose I might have grown up better, might have become a proper house girl or even taken Aunt Aggie's place as House Negro. I might have been a good girl if it had been in the cards. But all of that was dashed to hell two days after I was born, when the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg.” SlaveryZombiesAlternate History Book:Dread Nation Source: Dread Nation