Sapphira And The Slave Girl by Willa Cather
A proud plantation matron in antebellum Virginia forces a decision about a young enslaved woman to preserve family respectability, setting off a chain of moral reckonings and personal resentments; the novel exposes the cruelty, hypocrisy, and human cost of slavery as the characters’ social ambitions and private vanities produce tragic, revealing consequences.
The 15778th greatest book of all time
- Published
- 1940
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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