02209cam a2200373 i 4500 1651061204 TxAuBib 20241030120000.0 201014s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020947924 9781982149116 PAP 17.00 1982149116 PAP 17.00 TxAuBib rda Johnson, Sadeqa, author. Yellow wife [BOOK] : a novel / Sadeqa Johnson. First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2021. 277 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 275). "Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.". 20241030. Enslaved women Fiction. Slavery Virginia Fiction. African Americans Virginia Fiction. Plantation life Virginia Fiction. Prisons Virginia History Fiction. Virginia History 19th century Fiction. Charles City (Va) History 19th century Fiction. Richmond (Va) History 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction.