a beautiful slave sold at auction

The History Lesson

"Professor spirals into her bossy assistant's control."

For the last five years I've held the chair of Korean History (Early Modern) at my university, which I consider the crowning achievement of my life. I'm the first woman to occupy this particular chair, in a field normally dominated...

The Marketplace

"A trained slave doesn't quite make it to the auction block"

The MarketplaceThe woman known only by the number on the door of her cement cell awoke in the early morning when her cell door was unlocked and creaked open.  The attendant in his usual brusque manner brought in a wash...