The old woman tells Candide and Cunegonde her terrifying story of when she was younger.After her, her mother, and her maids were captured they were taken by ship as slaves and on their way to Morocco. When they arrive there is a war going on "... this produced fifty civil wars, of blacks against blacks, and blacks against tawnies, and twanies against twanies, and mulattoes against mulattoes" stated the old woman (Candide 25). Not only was there a war on land there was war on the ship over her mother. While in Morocco on the ship people were fighting over her mother and literally ripped her limb from limb. This left the old woman in a horrible state of shock.
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