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Her Brothers and Sisters
Isabella is the second-youngest of some ten or twelve children, most sold before she could know them; her parents' fireside recollections preserve the story of a five-year-old brother and three-year-old sister taken away by sleigh one snowy morning.
Family separation through saleBomefree and Mau-mau Bett's oral history of lost childrenThe sleigh-box sale of two young siblings