Night wherever we go / Tracey Rose Peyton.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : The Borough Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Whakaahuatanga: 295 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780008532857
- 9780008532840
- Enslaved women -- Fiction
- Slaveholders -- Fiction
- Plantations -- Texas -- Fiction
- Women slaves -- Texas -- Fiction
- Birth control -- Fiction
- Slave trade -- Fiction
- Passive resistance -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Texas -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- 813/.6 23/eng/20230509
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fiction | Eltham LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PEYT (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2234936 |
Includes bibliographical references.
On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys -- as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself -- have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a "stockman" to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves. Now each of the six faces a choice. Nan, the doctoring woman, has brought a sack of cotton root clippings that can stave off children when chewed daily. If they all take part, the Lucys may give up and send the stockman away. But a pregnancy for any of them will only encourage the Lucys further. And should their plan be discovered, the consequences will be severe.
There are no comments on this title.