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Ilsa

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19. Just finished "Bound" by Sally Gunning.

Wed Apr 18, 2018, 09:32 AM

Apr 2018

A pre-Revolutionary War novel about a girl on her way to Philadelphia from London. Her mom and two brothers die on the trip over, and they land in Boston. Her father has to borrow money at the end of the trip and she becomes indentured at age 7 in the 1750s. At age 15 she runs away after being repeatedly raped by her master.

The writer explains the laws well and mostly tells the story from this immature girl's POV. At the end of the book, the author talks about being indentured vs being enslaved, and about how human slavery is as bad now as it ever was.

I'm reading something light, next.

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