Sapphire's grave
By: Hilda Gurley-Highgate.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction.; Women -- North Carolina -- Fiction.; Women slaves -- Fiction.; North Carolina -- Fiction.; Sierra Leone -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In 1749 in Sierra Leone, a woman of fierce dignity is captured and forced onto a slave ship. On the harrowing voyage to the Americas, she is beaten for her unrelenting will and staunch pride. When she arrives, she gives birth to a daughter who is called Sapphire because of the "black-blue-black" complexion she shares with her mother. Sapphire has also inherited her mother's strength and defiant spirit, and despite a life lived in poverty and oppression, she grows up to mother several daughters of her own.

Even when tragedy strikes and part of Sapphire dies, her strength gives rise to a legend that will sustain the women who follow her, "each carrying something of her mother, her grandmother, her aunts; each passing on to her own daughters a blessing and cursing, the consequences of her choosing.""--BOOK JACKET.