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Language
English
Description
In 1849, Pola has faced horror upon horror at the plantation ironically named Hacienda Paraíso, from endless degradations to rapes and beatings, her infants stolen and sold. Pola finally flees, confident in the protection of the Yoruba water goddess, Yemayá. Yet she is recaptured, beaten nearly to death, and sold to the owner of Hacienda las Mercedes. There Pola finds a very different life, one not without its dangers but with the potential for...
Author
Series
Georgia trilogy (Eugenia Price) volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad ... This ... stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby's survival lies in outwitting him-- even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. -- adapted from back cover...
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