The wedding gift
Subtitle: a novel
By: Marlen Suyapa Bodden
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [S.l
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781439255834
Subjects: African Americans; Slavery; Fiction
Description: When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. It just so happens that Sarah is Allen's daughter as well, the product of a long-term sexual relationship with his slave Emmeline. When Clarissa's husband rejects her newborn son as illegitimate and sends Clarissa and Sarah back to the Allens, their return sets in motion a series of events that will destroy the once-powerful family.