The Wedding Gift
by Marlen Suyapa Bodden
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"When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah, her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be--with ambitions of loving whom she chooses--and Sarah equally hides behind the facade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with them to their new home, igniting events that spiral [out of control]"--Amazon.com.
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African Americans, Slavery, Fiction, Fiction, historical, Alabama, fiction, Slaves, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, family life, Friendship, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Fathers and daughters, Slaves, Friendship, Gifts, Roman, Historical fiction, Sisters, Amerikanisches Englisch, History, Fiction, historical, general, Social life and customs, FriendshipsPlaces
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The Wedding Gift
Sep 24, 2013, Brand: St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Press
hardcover
1250026385 9781250026385
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When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. It just so happens that Sarah is Allen's daughter as well, the product of a long-term sexual relationship with his slave Emmeline. When Clarissa's husband rejects her newborn son as illegitimate and sends Clarissa and Sarah back to the Allens, their return sets in motion a series of events that will destroy the once-powerful family.
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