The wedding gift

By Marlen Suyapa Bodden

Subjects: Alabama, fiction, Historical fiction, Slaves, History, Amerikanisches Englisch, Fiction, Fiction, family life, African Americans, Roman, Slavery, Fiction, historical, Sisters, fiction, Friendship, Fiction, historical, general, Gifts, Slaves, fiction, Sisters, Friendship, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fathers and daughters

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.