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Yellow wife : a novel /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 278 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781982149109
  • 1982149108
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3610.O3758 Y45 2021
Summary: 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.Summary: 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
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F JOH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000578827

Includes bibliographical references (page 275).

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

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