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Summary Of Isabel Gardner's 'Former Slave'

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Former slave, Isabel Gardner sets herself free. Thirteen year old Isabel and her little sister, Ruth, were sold to the Locktons, a malicious New York City couple. Soon after Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with connections to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners . Isabel is reluctant at first, but when Curzon tells her that it his owner might be able to sort out the situation with her and Ruth, Isabel begins spying for the rebels. Isabel 's story reaches the point of maximum intensity when Madam Lockton discovers that she 's been taking food to American prisoners of war. She also ups the emotional stakes by revealing that Ruth is alive and well and being housed at the Lockton headquarters in Charleston. Rather than hand over

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