plantation life

Elsie, now twenty-one years old, wishes to marry an old friend but her father decrees she must first learn to manage her inheritance, including her mother's Louisiana sugar plantation and its slaves.

"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she grows older, Mattie becomes more like family to Lisbeth than her own kin, and the girl's visits to the slaves' quarters--and their lively and loving community she finds there --bring the two closer together than ever. But can two women in such disparate circumstances form a bond like theirs without consequence? This deeply moving tale of unlikely love traces the journey of these very different women as each searches for freedom and dignity" -- Page 4 of cover.

After the death of her father in 1855, seventeen-year-old Sophia goes to live with her wealthy and mysterious godfather at his Gothic mansion, Wyndriven Abbey, in Mississippi, where many secrets lie hidden.

A narrative history of four generations of slaves and slave owners who lived on early-nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister Charles Colcock Jones's coastal Georgia plantations, covering the years 1805-69.

Tensions between Manon Gaudet, a fiercely discontent Louisiana plantation wife, and her young slave Sarah who has been forced into a sexual relationship with Manon's husband, come to a head in the 1820s when a slave rebellion touches all their lives.

Layla, who was born in India under an unlucky horoscope, has been raised to be educated despite everyone's expectations and has found love in the jungles of Assam on a successful tea plantation.

Chronicles the experiences of Solomon Northup after he was kidnapped from New York in 1841 and sold into slavery in the South.

Presents the true story of Solomon Northup, a born-free black man living in upstate New York. In 1841 he agreed to go with two men to Washington, D.C., supposedly to perform in a circus--instead the men drugged Solomon and took him to the South to sell him into slavery. For twelve years he worked for a variety of different masters, until he met a Canadian abolitionist who got word to his family.

In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.