![]() ![]() ![]() Free black men and women are employed at the hotel, and Lizzie sees a nearby resort catering to well-to-do African-Americans. In the summer of 1852 Nathan takes his favored slave Philip and Lizzie to Tawawa House, an Ohio resort where Southern men bring their slave women. ![]() In addition, her two light-skinned children are his only offspring. He shows unguarded favor to Lizzie, moving her into the guestroom across from his wife’s bedroom, teaching her to read and speak like a lady, seeming to need and care for her. Nathan took Lizzie as his mistress (if such a word can be used for the enslaved) as an adolescent by the age of 16 she had borne him a son and daughter. of Puget Sound) builds a convincing, nuanced portrait of Lizzie, a slave on Nathan Drayle’s Tennessee plantation. A striking debut intimately limns a Southern slave’s complicated relationship with her master. ![]()
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