Author: CATHER, WILLA (1873-1947)
Title: Sapphira and the slave girl
Description: New York : A.A. Knopf 1940. First Edition. Very good copy bound in cloth-backed boards with a somewhat edge worn paper label. Remains positively well-preserved: clean and strong. Physical description: viii. 295. [1] p ; 20 cm. Summary: Sapphira presides over her Back Creek Valley property with disciplined resolution. In 1865. she is one of the few Virginians who still has slaves; something her husband finds increasingly difficult to countenance. Sapphira's horrific power is unleashed when she hears her husband linked to her maid. Subject: Slavery ; Southern States ; History ; Fiction. Slavery - African American families - Virginia - History - 1775-1865 - Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Historical fiction. Novel. Weight in Kg appr.:

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