Dessa Rose
By: Sherley Anne Williams.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. Morrow
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction.; Slavery -- Fiction.; Slaves -- Fiction.; Southern States -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Based on the lives of two nineteenth-century women, this portrait of the South during slavery focuses on the slave Dessa Rose and her relationship with a white woman, Miss Rufel.