{"_id":"640fabcb8c1c350197766a05","title":"Freedom’s a Hard-Bought Thing","author":"Stephen Vincent Benét","code":"freedoms-a-hard-bought-thing","words":5796,"publish_year":1940,"publish_source":"The Saturday Evening Post","image":"chains.jpg","image_alt":"Long, iron chains falling onto a tense but open hand, palm up. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary","adventure"],"blurb":"“The freedom sickness,” said the old woman, and her little eyes glittered like sparks. “Some they break and some they tame down,” she said, “and some is neither to be tamed or broken.”","description":"Cue has only known being a slave and has never questioned it. Then after both his parents die of sickness, he begins to question the way of things.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}