This Slavery

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(W) Sophie Rickard, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (A) Scarlett Rickard. When the Lancashire cotton mill that employs them burns to the ground* sisters Rachel and Hester Martin are each f orced to find their own way to survive in the harsh realities of prewar industrial Britain. The contrasting paths they take in their quest for domestic autonomy form a subtly strident allegory of the all-but-insurmountable barriers of class and gender that then enslaved half the population. Part compelling narrative epic* part fiery Marxist-feminist polemic* this faithful* sumptuous* and revelatory adaptation by the award-winning Rickard Sisters reclaims a lost classic by holding it up as a mirror to our own hard times* and as a gloriously flaming beacon to future communities to offer strength* hope* and dignity. Show more