Property
By: Valerie Martin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780385504089
Subjects: Mistresses; Plantation owners' spouses; Slavery; Women slaves; Plantation life; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Slave insurrections; Fiction
Description: The tragedies and emotional repercussions of slavery in the antebellum South are seen through the eyes of slave owner Manon Gaudet, who marries the owner of a sugar plantation, only to see her own slave, Sarah, become her husband's mistress.
Notes: Also issued online.