Hero/heroine sold as slave or indentured servant
MaryAnn McKinnon
off without sensationalism.
One book I remember from a long time ago had the hero sold to the sugar
plantations in the Caribbean by an enemy. Can anyone think of a title or
author?
My favorite book along these lines (and one of my favorite books *period*!)
is _Lord of the Storm_, by Justine Davis. Set in the far future, the book
has the heroine as a pilot for an evil empire reminiscent of the one in Star
Wars, while the hero is a pleasure slave with a tragic and glorious past
forced into the hands of the heroine. Handled with sensitivity, realism, and
honesty, this book truly deserves five stars out of five in *anyone's* set of
criteria.
The story of a lord kidnapped and taken by a press gang, then sold as an
indentured servant in the colonies, which I highly recommend, and which I
would definitely give a 4+ star rating is Marlene Suson's _Midnight Bride_.
*Definitely* recommended reading!
In my TBR pile: _Beloved Bondage_ by Katherine Kincaid. The hero is a slave
to the heroine during the time of Caligula's Rome. Can anyone tell me more
about it?
In _Reforming Lord Ragsdale_, a delightful Regency by Carla Kelly, the noble
heroine is an indentured servant who comes up for sale, in her current
straits because her family was wrongly convicted of treason in an Irish
rebellion. The hero buys her to save her from being purchased by a lecherous
brute.
Slavery in the US until the time of the Civil War is a theme I have not
really seen treated in romance novels in a long time. Quite a few years ago,
black heroes/heroines and those of mixed blood from this time period were
common (especially in New Orleans), but I haven't seen any of this sort of
novel in a long time. Politically incorrect, perhaps? They used to be as
common as today's Indian romances. When was the last time anyone saw one?
Hmmm... Perhaps there might be something with a black hero/heroine from
this time period in the Arabesque line. Anyone know? And does anyone
remember any of the titles or authors of the *old* romances?
Heroine kidnapped by sheik. Okay, folks, no one does this anymore but
Johanna Lindsay. (I remember her _Silver Angel_) But quite frankly, I'm not
interested unless the hero turns out to be not *really* a sheik, and the
heroine's fate is not really going to be to live out her life in a harem.
(Anyone know of any books like this?)
So... Possibilities here? Greece and Rome, which had slaves as a matter of
course. The future. Indentured servants over a several hundred year span.
(Anyone know when this practice actualy ended?) Slavery in the US. Other
possibilities?
At any rate, who can add to this list, or add their own comments?
Susie Sampson
think, where the heroine is sold in an auction.
Alson, there is a Johanna Lindsey titled _Silver Angel_ where the heroine
is bought as a love slave. Intriguing story with a set of identical twins.
ELaytonfel
<Hero or Heroine sold as slave or indentured servant?>
Is it something in the air, or cosmic consciousness in action?
Wow.
My next book: BOUND BY LOVE, is about a variation on that very theme! It
was inspired by a true story that happened in the 18th century ... but, I
can say no more! My lips must be sealed! I only hope you can hold out
unitl summer, when Pocket will be bringing it out.
Bests,
Edith, who really isn't a tease, well - not always or often.
Tamara D. McNeill
Scot who was captured and placed in a harem--for a very specific reason. I
would cross-list this as an historical romance and historical fiction
because the romance, IMO, was secondary to the story. The book is about
her entire life, the bulk in the East, and is very moving; a fantastic
read. The Kadin also contains my all-time favorite scene.
>:Heroine kidnapped by sheik. Okay, folks, no one does this anymore but
>:Johanna Lindsay. (I remember her _Silver Angel_) But quite frankly, I'm not
>:interested unless the hero turns out to be not *really* a sheik, and the
>:heroine's fate is not really going to be to live out her life in a harem.
>: (Anyone know of any books like this?)
>:
>Ugh. I really hate this plot device. The first, last and only one of
>this sort that I ever read was THE VALIDE by Barbara Chase-Ribaud,
>supposedly based on a true story of a French-Caribbean woman kidnapped
>into the Topkapi harem. (This book was also written about 20 years
>ago) Harems are hell. The heroine in this story had to claw her way to
>the top to become the Sultan's favorite wife AND mother of the future
>Sultan.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Lynn Berkowitz lynn...@ix.netcom.com
>"I was put in this world to accomplish a certain number of things and I
>am so far behind right now that I will never die." -- Calvin & Hobbes
Tamara D. McNeill
Berkeley, Ca
mar...@uclink2.berkeley.edu
Lynn Berkowitz
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995 12:49:43 -0500 MaryAnn McKinnon <Mary...@aol.com>
wrote:
:Well, I haven't seen many of these lately, and it's a difficult task to pull
:off without sensationalism.
:
:Slavery in the US until the time of the Civil War is a theme I have not
:really seen treated in romance novels in a long time. Quite a few years ago,
:black heroes/heroines and those of mixed blood from this time period were
:common (especially in New Orleans), but I haven't seen any of this sort of
:novel in a long time. Politically incorrect, perhaps? They used to be as
:common as today's Indian romances. When was the last time anyone saw one?
: Hmmm... Perhaps there might be something with a black hero/heroine from
:this time period in the Arabesque line. Anyone know? And does anyone
:remember any of the titles or authors of the *old* romances?
:
JUBILEE by Margaret Walker, heroine is the daughter of the plantation
master and a black slave woman. It was first published in 1966 and is
now in reprint. Margaret Walker is an African-American historian and
this book is more of a historical novel like GONE WITH THE WIND (from
the Black perspective) than a romance.