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The Wedding Gift [Kindle Edition]
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The wedding gift was beautifully written and captured your interest from the minute you started reading. The twists and turns between the characters and the adventures was interesting to read because much of the novel was based on a real slavery case. I loved the descriptions of the characters as well as learning about their daily life. The ending was nothing what I expected, AND was a wonderful way to end their life's journey. A superbly written novel, so compelling and I cannot wait to read what Ms. Bodden writes next! --Tina Sussman
Product 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. Told through the alternating view points of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius’s wife, The Wedding Gift shines a glaring light on the brutality of slavery in the antebellum South.Based on a court case in 19th century Alabama, The Wedding Gift draws readers into the complex world of American slavery and provides an unflinching account of the tactics used to control women, slave and free. This compelling historical novel twists and turns through the wealthy planter and merchant societies of Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, and New York, culminating in the British West Indies, where its controversial and shocking conclusion is sure to leave readers aghast.
Product Details
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 433 KB
- Print Length: 336 pages
- Publisher: BookSurge Publishing; First edition (December 9, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003I84M9Q
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
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