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Dessa Rose

by Sherley Anne Williams

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  • Hardcover
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ISBN 10
0739404156
ISBN 13
9780739404157
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William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1986. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Average wear, yellowed text especially margins, solid copy despite missing jacket. Based on the lives of two nineteenth-century women, this portrait of the South during slavery focuses on the slave Dessa Rose and her relationship with a white woman, Miss Rufel. Scarce hardcover edition.

Synopsis

This acclaimed historical novel is based on two actual incidents: In 1829 in Kentucky, a pregnant black woman helped lead an uprising of a group of slaves headed to the market for sale. She was sentenced to death, but her hanging was delayed until after the birth of her baby. In North Carolina in 1830, a white woman living on an isolated farm was reported to have given sanctuary to runaway slaves. In Dessa Rose, the author asks the question: "What if these two women met?"From there the story unfolds: two strong women, one black, one white, form a forbidden and ambivalent alliance; a bold scheme is hatched to win freedom; trust is slowly extended and cautiously accepted as the two women unite and discover greater strength together than alone. United by fate but divided by prejudice, these two women are locked in a thrilling battle for freedom, sisterhood, friendship, and love.

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Bookseller
Les livres des Limbes FR (FR)
Bookseller's Inventory #
10993
Title
Dessa Rose
Author
Sherley Anne Williams
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No DJ
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
0739404156
ISBN 13
9780739404157
Publisher
William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
1986
Keywords
ABI PM BJ4
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction, Biblio, ABI;

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