Foreword
It is hard to conceive in this day and age, and especially in our Western society, that individual human beings could be and are now being treated like mere chattel and worse.
Yet there are examples to be found all around us. Migrant workers labor for a pittance, and are beaten or thrown out of their jobs if they protest against their meager wages. Sharecroppers are forced to turn over as much as 50 percent of their produce to large landowners to pay off an ever-increasing debt whose termination they will never see. Illegal aliens must work for cruelly low wages or face exposure and deportation.
And then there is Marilyn Bergman, an intelligent, beautiful woman who, at the outset of her trip through the hills of West Virginia, would never have dreamed 'that a mechanical breakdown and a request for help would lead her into a nightmare world of rape and degradation and violence.
ROPED AND RAPED--the story of a woman who finds out what it is like to be treated like an object rather than a person. A reminder that our society is still a long ways from Utopia.
-The Publisher