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"I was looked at, criticized, and after much bargaining sold for $250."
So begins Janet Lim's ordeal as a slave girl, in 1930s Singapore. But this is only the beginning of a remarkable journey, which sees the author freed from child bondage to assume a position of leadership, and obtain true happiness, in later life.
After gaining her freedom, Janet is educated by missionaries, she embraces the Christian faith, and serves under colonial tutelage as a nurse. Her misfortunes return, however, when Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942-the ship that she flees Singapore on is bombed and she drifts for days at sea. Rescued by Indonesian fishermen, she is finally captured and imprisoned in Japanese-occupied Sumatra. To avoid becoming a comfort woman Janet escapes into the jungle villages of West Sumatra but is once again caught, and this time tortured by the Japanese military police and threatened with the firing squad.
Janet's writing is honest, enthralling and inspirational. Despite a horrific childhood and early adult life, Janet is able to find benevolence and even humor in her misfortune.
... a historically important and inspirational story ... what will strike you about this book is the lack of bitterness in her account.
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Cherilyn Burgan
reviewed Sold for Silver: An Autobiography of a Girl Sold into Slavery in Southeast Asia on May 25, 2013
Sold for Silver
An autobiography of a woman who lived under three regimes: Traditionalist China, British Empire and Japanese Empire. Her impoverished widow mother sold her to be a household servant to a Singapore merchant. These contracts were made illegal by the British administration, and she was taken into a Christian missionary school, later training as a nurse. Briefly an army nurse, after capture by the Japanese and an attempt to force her to be a mistress for senior japanese with trial as a spy after her refusal, she became an industrial nurse in Indonesia at a strategic japanese-run works. So, an adventurous story. One thing which stood out for me, was when notified of her impending execution as a spy for America she made a last request that it should be for China. An interesting feminine viewpoint on the societies, not one society, in which she lived.
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