Sadeqa Johnson's 'Yellow Wife' chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman's survival in the antebellum South
Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South Ellen Morton © Simon and Schuster Through the eyes of a character with uncommon access and compassion, Sadeqa Johnson’s novel “The Yellow Wife” evokes a vision of one woman’s tenacious survival of antebellum cruelty and objectification. The daughter of an enslaved healer and seamstress and her White master, Pheby Delores Brown grows up in a kind of in-between state. “Problem with being high yella,” an enslaved woman tells Pheby after her father...
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