![]() ![]() NEARY: I want to ask you first to set the scene because this is a really interesting place that I never understood could have existed. ![]() Ms.�DOLEN PERKINS VALDEZ (Author): Thank you for having me. Mawu's defiance unsettles Lizzie's world and her complex relationship with a man who is her owner and the father of her children.ĭolen Perkins Valdez joins us now to talk about her book. It is this relationship that Dolen Perkins Valdez explores in her novel "Wench." Set mostly on a resort in Ohio, where Southern slave owners sometimes vacationed with the slaves who were their mistresses, the story focuses on four of these women: Lizzie, Reenie, Sweet and Mawu, a newcomer tempted by the scent of freedom in the North who begins to talk about escape. Of the many peculiarities of the peculiar institution known as slavery, perhaps none is as hard to fathom as the relationship between slave owners and the slaves who were their lovers and sometimes the mother of their children. ![]() Coming up, our panel of moms talk about the work-life-motherhood balance and the art of time management.īut first, we look at a new book. You're listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News. ![]()
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