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Commencement of Isabella's Trials in Life
Sold at nine for one hundred dollars to John Nealy—'in this sale she was connected with a lot of sheep'—the Dutch-speaking Isabella is whipped by English-speaking owners for errands she cannot understand; 'Now the war begun,' she says.
Sale to John Nealy at age nineThe Dutch-English language barrierThe Sunday morning whipping and its lifelong scars