The wedding gift
By: Marlen Suyapa Bodden
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781471241161
Subjects: Gifts; Slavery; Fiction; Fathers and daughters; Sisters; Slaves; Social conditions; Friendships
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. The two girls have grown up together but their lives could not have been more different. When Clarissa's husband rejects her newborn son as illegitimate and sends the women back to the Allens, their return sets in motion a series of events that has far-reaching consequences for both.
Notes: Published by W.F. Howes Ltd under the Clipper imprint.

Originally published: London: Century.