01670cam a2200241 4500 549451270 TxAuBib 20220224120000.0 201014s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020947924 9781982149109 hardback 1982149108 hardback 9781982149116 paperback 1982149116 paperback TxAuBib Johnson, Sadeqa. Yellow wife : a novel / Sadeqa Johnson. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. pages cm. "This harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a privileged life. Shielded by her mother's position as the plantation's medicine woman, and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. Freedom on her eighteenth birthday has been promised to her, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known and unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous "Devil's Half-Acre," a jail where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day in Richmond, Virginia. There Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailor's cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive Pheby will have to outwit him but soon faces the ultimate sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher. 20220224. TXOLT