The wedding gift

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.

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

Places: Southern States