6/30/2023 0 Comments Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez![]() ![]() Lizzie betrays them, with disastrous results. ![]() In the summer of 1852, the summer friends and a trusted slave, Philip, meet a Quaker woman and talk together about escaping. There is even a nearby resort for more prosperous blacks. She wants her freedom and plants seeds in the others, who begin to question their own acceptance of their deeply compromised lives.įree black men and women are employed at the hotel. One year a spirited and angry newcomer who calls herself Mawu joins them. They meet yearly in the free state of Ohio at the summer resort Tawawa House. Three black slave women-Lizzie, Sweet and Reenie-have achieved a certain social status in the complex world of American antebellum plantation society: they are “mistresses” of their owners, with attitudes toward them ranging from deep hatred to what verges on love. ![]()
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