Bodden, Marlen Suyapa,

The wedding gift / Marlen Suyapa Bodden. - Large print edition. - 420 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.

"Clipper". Originally published: London: Century.

When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. The two girls have grown up together but their lives could not have been more different. When Clarissa's husband rejects her newborn son as illegitimate and sends the women back to the Allens, their return sets in motion a series of events that has far-reaching consequences for both.

9781471241161


Slavery--History--Southern States--19th century--Fiction.
Slaves--History--Southern States--19th century--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.


Southern States--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.


Large type books.

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