Powerful Read

[Jerimy]

I read this book for one of my college courses and I must say that it is a powerful read. The book details the life of a young woman living in the American south as a slave. The book is powerful in the sense that it discusses first hand what it is like to be owned. Most people are owned to a certain degree, by their homes, their family, their friends, or even their way of life. The difference is that a person who is owned by these things need only to change their way of life, however, a person who is owned by another person must deal with the whims and fancies of their owner. The book is a page-turner and the author who wrote it gave a whole new meaning to the word courageous as it was not popular at the time for slaves to be educated enough to write. To read this book, and to truly appreciate it, one must read it with a willingness to forget their own comforts and embark on a riveting journey with a brave young woman who refused to be owned; yet the only way to do that was to be bought by another and set free.

[Ellen]

Excellent review!