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Reviewed by Bobbie Grob for Readers' Favorite
Cowslip: A Slave by Betsy Haynes tells of slavery from a unique perspective - that of a 13-year-old female slave named Cowslip. The story starts during the Civil War as Cowslip and several other children are being sold at a slave auction and follows Cowslip as she is taken to a new plantation with new masters and unfamiliar slaves. In the course of the story, many of Cowslip's beliefs are challenged, and she is forced to decide whether to think for herself or continue to blindly believe everything that she has been told. The story takes place in just a matter of weeks, but many things happened and as I followed Cowslip down her path, I couldn't help but wonder what would happen to her. Would she follow the path she had always known or forge a new one?
My only complaint with Cowslip: A Slave by Betsy Haynes is that there were quite a few typos that could have been avoided. Still, I had to give the book 5 stars. It is wonderfully written and is told from a perspective that I had never considered before. In 2014 it is difficult to truly realize what life must have been like for slaves, but with a first-person point of view like this, I felt like I was right there with Cowslip on the plantation. What struck me the most is how Cowslip felt about herself and her position in life. That made me stop and put down the book to really think about slavery and how devastating it was. This book deserves every single star I gave it, and then some. I don't know whether Ms. Haynes plans to continue the story of Cowslip, but if she does, I will gladly purchase the book!
