Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.
She’d 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 Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.
**All is can say is this Story is going to stay with me. It’s one of those books that takes you in. You can take the journey with Pheby. You feel what she feels. You cry with her. You root for her. You don’t want her story to end. I cried so much reading this book. My heart ached and I did smile though my tears. I highly recommend you reading and going along with Pheby Delores Brown on her Story. I promise you, it will stick with you.
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