Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Willa Cather
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Author: Willa Cather

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2016


Synopsis

Willa Cather's Southern plantation story, set in 1856, challenges the widely accepted stereotype of the Southern lady. First published in 1940, the novel tells a story Cather heard when she was growing up in Virginia. about a small-town miller, a beautiful mulatto slave girl named Nancy Till, and the miller's jealous wife--Sapphira--who is convinced her husband is in love with Nancy. She plans for the girl's downfall, but Nancy escapes to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Her fate is learned years later--a common device in Cather's novels--when she returns to Virginia on a visit and reveals herself to be a poised, sophisticated woman who, in escaping her stultifying background, has found success and happiness.

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