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date : September 28th, 2011Wedding Gifts
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When rich camp owners Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with the wedding gift: the immature worker lady called Sarah. It only so happens which Sarah is Allen’s daughter as well, the product of the long-term passionate relationship with his worker Emmeline. When Clarissa’s father rejects her baby son as deceptive as well as sends Clarissa as well as Sarah behind to the Allens, their lapse sets in suit the array of events which will fall short the once-powerful family. Told by the swapping perspective points of Sarah as well as Theodora Allen, Cornelius’s wife, The Wedding Gift shines the vivid light upon the heartless universe of labour in the antebellum American South. Marlen Suyapa Bodden’s constrained chronological novel explores how planters tranquil slaves as well as giveaway women alike, moving them along the frozen amicable tightrope as they struggled for leisure as well as liberty in an rough as well as congenital world. The argumentative as well as intolerable finale is certain to leave readers aghast.
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The Wedding Gift – is a gift to readers.,
Last summer I met the author, Mrs. Bodden and her husband at the 2010 Harlem Book Festival. I made a promise to myself that I would purchase the book and read it. A year later I ordered the book as I had the postcard on my refrigerator as a reminder to purchase a copy.
My normal summer read is a Benilde Little book, which I am awaiting a new one.
And a friend had just given me Raising Ce Ce Honeycott, which I simply devoured.
So it was time for me to keep that promise to myself and purchase “The Wedding Gift” for this summer.
When I first began reading it I was surprised that it was about slavery, I was expecting something like “Jumping the Broom,” or some modern day marriage twist like the “Wedding,” by Dorothy West.
As I relinquished my expectations I became enveloped in the storyline and couldn’t put it down. As I began reading Theodora’s accounts of being the Mistress of a Plantation, her accounts answered so many questions I had about what women thought of their husbands, slavery, and mulatto children born to them.
Like many others, I was thrilled at the surprised ending – and to tell you the truth, I am now wanting a sequel to what happens next?
I am so grateful to have been given this insight into the lives of slaves and of the women of that period. This book was indeed a gift to the reader.
If you haven’t gotten a copy – it will be worth it! Even if you’ve been putting it off –
The main character you will just love to hate her and then love Sarah Campbell – she is spoiled, naive at first, and then brave and eventually your heroine.
Though many slave stories have been told, this is still a one-of-a-kind tale, you will not want to miss.
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|Fantastic Story,
Fantastic book. I couldn’t put it down. Great surprise ending–I never saw it coming. If you like historical fiction, this book is a vivid, and sometimes heartbreaking, portrayal of early American slavery and the oppression of women. You can tell this book is well researched, but the impressive part is how seamlessly it is woven into the story. I can’t wait to tell my friends about this book.
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|Wedding Gift,
This book is a good fiction book based on situations that could have happened in the past, it is not factual by any means. Many parts were inaccurate, but most readers wouldnt know that because this part of history is not taught in schools, nor talked about.
If you want to know what slavery was like for the Africans read any of the books offered for free here on Amazon about slave life that was written by the people from Africa themselves. You will not see in most instances friendships and familial connections such as in the book, they did not exist.
Slave women who were involved with the master most times got sent to another plantation, same as the children, white women did not want the reminder of her husbands infidelities hanging around the yard. And as for the white master giving the black woman something in writing stating her freedom, lets just say that is a really long shot. For the most part it would not have happened.
African’s were considered property and in the young girls situation being given as a gift made her a part of the estate meaning that she would be a slave forever, she could be given as a gift again to her masters children, and again to their children for as long as she lived. Enjoy this as a ficton book, but before you talk about slavery read actual accounts of people who endured this ugly system first hand then compare what they say to this book.
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