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Language
English
Description
Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. And they provide more privacy, which best suits the needs of the Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their black, enslaved mistresses. Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are regulars at Tawawa House. They have become friends over the years as they reunite and share developments in their own lives and on their respective plantations. They don't bother too...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A story based on true events recreates a female slave's struggle for freedom in the decades before the Civil War as she is freed by her owner, kidnapped by slave catchers and returned to Virginia, and brings criminal charges against her kidnappers.
Author
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In 1963 rural Georgia, new mother Adie Jenkins, married to the unfaithful Buck, finds solace in her friendship with midwife Willa Mae Satterfield and in her discovery of the diary of Tempe Jordan, a pregnant, teenage slave girl, who may be the mother of Willa Mae, in an evocative novel of family, race, and mysterious connections across generations.
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