![]() ![]() For Lizzie and the other slaves she befriends that summer, this seems like the world turned upside down. 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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