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Sadeqa Johnson's new novel, Yellow Wife, is a harrowing tale of the life of an enslaved woman in Virginia, beginning in the 1850s. A challenging read but beautifully told, this thought-provoking page-turner is also surprisingly uplifting. And at its core, Yellow Wife is also a story of motherhood and the sacrifices a mother will make to protect her children — no matter how those babies come into the world. When the story begins, Johnson's protagonist Pheby Delores Brown is 17 and lives at the Bell Plantation. She and her mother, Ruth, a well-regarded healer, are inseparable and treated "s...

Book World: An enslaved woman becomes her own savior Ellen Morton, The Washington Post Jan. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - 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's wife slaps her, "that handprint gonna be on your face...

A young, half-white enslaved woman must contend with horrendous decisions as she attempts to preserve what little family she has left.

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�...