A Stolen Life
- ISBN-10
- 0689829329
- ISBN-13
- 9780689829321
- Series
- A Stolen Life
- Category
- Indentured servants
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Author
- Jane Louise Curry
Description
In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by "spiriters" and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter.
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