Bond-Woman

She would be sold to the highest bidder. There she stood in the center of a group of leering plantation owners, her once beautiful clothes in rags. Unjustly convicted of theft, Verity had been thrown into Newgate Prison, then shipped to Virginia to be sold as a slave. She had been stripped of all but her pride. She raised her beautiful face and cast a hopeful glance in the direction on the one man who at first had seemed sympathetic. But it was soon clear from his cynical gaze that he, too, saw her lush young body only as an instrument of pleasure.