Yellow Wife

Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson — A gripping, emotionally charged tale of Pheby Delores Brown, an enslaved woman promised freedom but sold to a brutal jailer instead. Forced into impossible choices, she must summon courage and resilience to protect her children and survive.

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Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson is a powerful and haunting historical novel inspired by true events.

It follows Pheby Delores Brown, a young enslaved woman born on a Virginia plantation in the mid-1800s. Promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, Pheby instead finds herself betrayed and sold to the notorious Devil’s Half Acre jail in Richmond. There, she becomes the unwilling mistress of the brutal jailer, Rubin Lapier, and must use her intelligence, courage, and will to survive in a world built on cruelty and control.

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Weight 0.5 kg
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Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780349130606

Publisher

Hachette

Year Published

2021

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