I'm not entirely sure how this went. These are options I'm struggling to choose between:
You can "sell yourself" into slavery in exchange for money that your kid gets when they come of age, and Juana did that.
You CAN'T "sell yourself" into slavery. But Juana got herself purposefully enslaved anyway, by committing a calculated petty crime. It was a very risky move and she and her daughter both went through hell because of it. But eventually, she became a domestic slave and could take her girl with her. Which meant they were both slaves, but her girl would have a dry place to sleep in, a meal every day and that right to full education that James lost.
Juana was tossed into slavery on account of being too poor to function on her own. Her daughter had been just below the cut-off point, and she had begged/bribed with everything she had left (possibly her body)/been offered the mercy of changing her birth date by the city clerc. (She doesn't know if it would have been better or not for her girl to go into fostering. At the time she had to choose, so she did.)
Juana has made some hard choices in life, she payed some irrevercible prices for them and her daughter did too, but ultimately, she can't regret them. She was desperate, and she did the best she could think of in response.
She hasn't seen her daughter since she came of age.
Re: SIDE NOTES (Children // Juana)
Juana's daughter followed her into slavery.
I'm not entirely sure how this went. These are options I'm struggling to choose between:
You can "sell yourself" into slavery in exchange for money that your kid gets when they come of age, and Juana did that.
You CAN'T "sell yourself" into slavery. But Juana got herself purposefully enslaved anyway, by committing a calculated petty crime. It was a very risky move and she and her daughter both went through hell because of it. But eventually, she became a domestic slave and could take her girl with her. Which meant they were both slaves, but her girl would have a dry place to sleep in, a meal every day and that right to full education that James lost.
Juana was tossed into slavery on account of being too poor to function on her own. Her daughter had been just below the cut-off point, and she had begged/bribed with everything she had left (possibly her body)/been offered the mercy of changing her birth date by the city clerc. (She doesn't know if it would have been better or not for her girl to go into fostering. At the time she had to choose, so she did.)
Juana has made some hard choices in life, she payed some irrevercible prices for them and her daughter did too, but ultimately, she can't regret them. She was desperate, and she did the best she could think of in response.
She hasn't seen her daughter since she came of age.