Title: A servant of slaves
Description: "In this new novel, Oscar-winning writer William Kelley, tells the true story of a young, southern, female quadroon who overcame the racial prejudice of the pre-civil war era to create a religious order that would care for destitute and dying blacks." -- from publisher's website.
Subjects: Sisters of the Holy Family (New Orleans, La.), Free African Americans, Slavery, African American women, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, New orleans (la.), fiction
Places: New Orleans (La.)
People: Henriette Delille (1812-1862)