Work: A Story of Experience
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You are Christie, twenty-one and leaving Aunt Betsey's farm to earn an independent life, over Uncle Enos's warning that the world corrects such notions quickly. The city obliges: teaching posts want accomplishments you lack, sewing you won't attempt, and Mrs. Flint finally places you as a maid in the fashionable Stuart household, where you're expected to answer to "Jane" like every servant before you. There you meet Hepsey Johnson, who escaped slavery five years ago and still has parents and eight siblings waiting in bondage.
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- The First PlaceNew England and the City