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Countess Garouge
(Miranda Birch)

In the bad old days of the slave-owning States of the American South, there was a plantation called the Garouge Plantation, owned by a lady of quality who styled herself Countess Garouge. Of course, as an American, the citizen of a Republic, she had no claim to any noble title. But woe betide anyone who alluded to the fact! 



Her lifestyle was extravagant even by the standards of the time. It was estimated that the Countess Garouge (for so we shall call her) owned some 10,000 creatures on her vast estate. Of these creatures, 8,000 were cattle, pigs or horses; the rest were humans. Human slaves. Most extraordinary for the time, many of her slaves were white. 



These slaves were branded as were the animals and lived very much as the animals did. However they were treated far worse, since the animals were not liable to punishment -- although the horses might feel a riding crop of course. 



The vast majority of the slaves worked on the land under the supervision of overseers. Another queer aspect of the Garouge Plantation was that the overseers were all female, without exception. For all of their authority, these overseers went in dread of the Countess and treated her with the very greatest respect. No overseer wished to lose her position or, far worse, be made a slave herself. 



A select number of the slaves -- perhaps a hundred -- worked as domestic slaves in the vast mansion in which the Countess resided. Many of these were males, but there were some females among them, there being a certain number of tasks at which female slaves were simply more proficient. However, for preference the Countess preferred to have male slaves in attendance upon her. 



All domestic slaves wore nothing but a short leathern apron, at most; indeed, some where kept completely nude. Thus the female breasts were always exposed. Each slave was also fitted with a slave-collar. This was of iron, welded on, and carrying several rings for chaining purposes. In addition, each male slave was fitted with a skimpy but sturdy and very tight leather restraining device around the genitals, this permitting natural functions but prevented an erection developing. The Countess much enjoyed the degree of sexual control which she had over her male domestic slaves. The land slaves did not concern her. They were under the control of her overseers -- who could do with them as they wished. (And they did!)