Fiction by Sadequa Johnson
Pheby Delores Brown is born a slave on a Virginia plantation, but her mother Ruth dreams of launching her to freedom. Ruth keeps carefully on Master Jacob's good side, because he has promised that he'll give Pheby her freedom papers when she's eighteen. But a slave master's promises are not always kept.
Master Jacob's wife is jealous of Ruth and resents Pheby greatly. While he is on an extended trip, the Missus takes the opportunity and sells seventeen-year-old Pheby, sending her to the worst place a young woman can go: the slave market in Richmond.
This story was very good; it was both exciting and moving.
I also read by this author: House of Eve
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