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The Wedding Gift: A Novel

By Marlen Suyapa Bodden
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By Marlen Suyapa Bodden
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"[A] compelling and fierce historical novel, where the slave master gives his white daughter his black daughter as a wedding gift," based on a true story (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).

In 1852, when prestigious Alabama plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah—her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be, with ambitions of loving whom she chooses. Sar...

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