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To be a slave

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Dial Books for young readers c1968Description: 159 pp. ill. 22 cmISBN:
  • 0803789556
Subject(s): Summary: "To be a slave. To be owned by another person, as a car, house or table is owned. To live as a piece of property that could be sold, a child sold from its mother, a wife from her husband. To be considered not human, but a 'thing' that plowed the fields, cut the wood, cooked the food, nursed another's children, a 'thing whose sole function was determined by the one who owned you." This book is about how it felt.
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Books Books Riverfield Country Day School Fiction Collection Fiction Collection FIC Les (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available Shelved in FIC Les T0005940
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"To be a slave. To be owned by another person, as a car, house or table is owned. To live as a piece of property that could be sold, a child sold from its mother, a wife from her husband. To be considered not human, but a 'thing' that plowed the fields, cut the wood, cooked the food, nursed another's children, a 'thing whose sole function was determined by the one who owned you." This book is about how it felt.

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