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Part I: Chapters I - VI

• Isabel, a thirteen year old slave owned by Mary Finch walks behind the carriage pulling Mary's coffin to the cemetery.

• Ruth, Isabel's sister, rides with the carriage driver because she has epilepsy and is mentally impaired. Isabel stops at her mother's grave to pray.

• Today is the day Isabel has waited for a long time. Today, according to Mary Finch, Isabel and Ruth will be freed by Mary's will.

• After the funeral Isabel asks the pastor for help in finding work. Miss Finch's nephew cuts into the conversation.

• He claims his aunt's will cannot be found and the two girls are his property. He plans to sell them as soon as possible.
• Robert, the nephew, takes the girls to an alehouse where he auctions them off to the highest bidder despite the pleas of Jenny, the tavern owner.

• The two girls are...

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