Yellow Wife
About this book
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, 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. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.
Reader Profile
4.4/5 · 97583 readers · 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Yellow Wife?
About ≈ 5 h 20 m — 288 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Yellow Wife?
288 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Yellow Wife?
It sits on the Historical Fiction, History, Fiction shelves.
Is Yellow Wife in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Yellow Wife?
Sadeqa Johnson.