{"id":61464,"date":"2021-09-12T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T23:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61464"},"modified":"2021-09-12T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T23:32:15","slug":"yellow-wife-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61464","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Wife, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Yellow-Wife\/Sadeqa-Johnson\/9781982149109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Yellow Wife, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon &amp; Schuster<\/a><br \/>2021-01-12<br \/>288 pages<br \/>Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781982149109<br \/>Paperback ISBN-13: 9781982149116<br \/>Audiobook ISBN-13: 9781797118819 (09:31:00)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadeqajohnson.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sadeqa Johnson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Yellow-Wife\/Sadeqa-Johnson\/9781982149109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net\/book_images\/onix\/cvr9781982149109\/yellow-wife-9781982149109_hr.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Called &#8220;wholly engrossing&#8221; by <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lumpkin%27s_Jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most infamous slave jail<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born on a plantation in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_City,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles City, Virginia<\/a>, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother\u2019s position as the estate\u2019s medicine woman and cherished by the Master\u2019s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lumpkin%27s_Jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devil\u2019s Half Acre<\/a>, a jail in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richmond,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond, Virginia<\/a>, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer\u2019s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Wife, A Novel Simon &amp; Schuster2021-01-12288 pagesHardcover ISBN-13: 9781982149109Paperback ISBN-13: 9781982149116Audiobook ISBN-13: 9781797118819 (09:31:00) Sadeqa Johnson Called &#8220;wholly engrossing&#8221; by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,15,6940,20,25],"tags":[31868,31869,8406,31872,10517],"class_list":["post-61464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-devils-half-acre","tag-lumpkins-jail","tag-richmond","tag-sadeqa-johnson","tag-simon-schuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61465,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61464\/revisions\/61465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}