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Johnson, Sadeqa,

Yellow wife : a novel / - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - 278 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (page 275).

Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail. 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 jacket

ISBN: 9781982149109 1982149108

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women slaves--Fiction.
Slavery--Virginia--Fiction.
African Americans--Virginia--Fiction.
Plantation life--Virginia--Fiction.
Prisons--History--Virginia--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Virginia--History--19th century--Fiction.
Charles City (Va.)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Richmond (Va.)--History--19th century--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3610.O3758 / Y45 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6