Yellow wife : a novel / Sadeqa Johnson.
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby's survival lies in outwitting him-- even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. -- adapted from jacket
Item details
- ISBN: 9781982149109
- ISBN: 1982149108
- Physical Description: 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 275). |
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Subject: | Women slaves > Fiction. Slavery > Virginia > Fiction. African Americans > Virginia > Fiction. Plantation life > Virginia > Fiction. Prisons > Virginia > History > Fiction. Virginia > History > 19th century > Fiction. Charles City (Va.) > History > 19th century > Fiction. Richmond (Va.) > History > 19th century > Fiction. Coming of age. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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