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Discusses many forms of family abuse, including child abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

Discusses the forms of child abuse, its historical and culturalcontext, and society's methods of dealing with it.

The author, Shyima Hall was eight when her parents sold her into slavery. In Egypt's capitol city of Cairo, she lived with a wealthy family and served them eighteen hours a day, seven days a week. When she was ten, her captors moved to Orange County, California, and smuggled Shyima with them. Two years later, an anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyimas' servitude-- but her journey to true freedom was far from over. Now a US...