196 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2002 by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
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The tragedies and emotional repercussions of slavery in the antebellum South are seen through the eyes of slave owner Manon Gaudet, who marries the owner of a sugar plantation, only to see her own slave, Sarah, become her husband's mistress.
The tragedies and emotional repercussions of slavery in the antebellum South are seen through the eyes of slave owner Manon Gaudet, who marries the owner of a sugar plantation, only to see her own slave, Sarah, become her husband's mistress.
Subjects
- Plantation owners' spouses -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Slave insurrections -- Fiction
- Plantation life -- Fiction
- Women slaves -- Fiction
- Mistresses -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Fiction
- Louisiana -- Fiction
Places
- Louisiana