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Gr 7 Up—Shyima Hall was born in Egypt in 1989 and sold into slavery by her parents when she was eight years old. Here she tells her shocking story: one of 11 children in a happy but poverty-stricken family, she was sold as a slave to a wealthy family in Cairo, who smuggled her with them to Orange County, CA. After she was freed from her captors, she was thrust into the foster care system and learned to read and write in English...Log In or Sign Up to Read More