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Informationen zum Autor Marlen Bodden is a lawyer in New York City. She has more than two decades' experience representing poor people and low-wage and immigrant workers! many of whom are severely underpaid! if paid at all. She drew on her knowledge of modern and historical slavery! human trafficking! and human rights abuses to write The Wedding Gift! her first novel. Marlen is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Tufts University. Visit her website at: www.marlenbodden.com for the history behind The Wedding Gift in photographs! illustrations! maps! and a bibliography. And follow her on Facebook and Twitter. Klappentext What if! on your sister's wedding day! you were given to her - as her slave?When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa! he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. Sarah is black and is used to a life of slavery and hard work. Zusammenfassung What if! on your sister's wedding day! you were given to her - as her slave?When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa! he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. Sarah is black and is used to a life of slavery and hard work.
