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avital_gc
, October 15, 2014
Property, a book by the excellent writer Valerie Martin (The Confessions of Edward Day, Italian Fever) deals with the state of women as possessions at the time of slavery in the United States. Martin offers an original slant in her profound dive into a white woman’s psyche and situation as she, Manon, tells her life story and the life of her female slave, Sarah. While Manon tries to release herself from the greedy possession of her husband, she is unaware of repeating the same pattern of an owner and a property in her own relationship with Sarah. She goes as far as seeing Sarah as her enemy due the husband’s deviation, although the slave has no power to resist him. The author doesn't give us any easy solutions, only a view of the meaning of human property and how it destroys lives.
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