TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bodden,Marlen Suyapa
TI  - The wedding gift
SN  - 9781471241161
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Rearsby, Leicester
PB  - W.F. Howes Ltd
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Large type books
N1  - "Clipper"; Originally published: London: Century
N2  - 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
ER  -