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Book Review of The Wedding Gift

The Wedding Gift
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Two half sisters, one is a slave to the family and the other sister and she realizes through the book that freedom is all she wants and she is willing to give up many things to get it. This book starts when both girls are at a young age and then progresses through many ups and downs and ends when adulthood is under way.

I loved the new take on a subject that has many books written about it - slavery in the South. Told from two perspectives made the book so much deeper than if it had only been told from one - both the slave Sarah and the mother of the home Theodora Allen tell the story and sometimes a scene overlaps which was awesome to see two people tell a story through their own eyes. If you think you have read all the books about slavery in the South, stop and read this one - a different glimpse that with the hope of freedom put the book in the most positive light.