Already abolitionists, the Woolseys are horrified. And I do mean “entirely.”Īs the story begins, members of the Woolsey family, visiting South Carolina, witness slave babies being put up for sale at an auction, where the babies’ mothers are also sold, separately from their children. We watch events pan out from the point of view of several different characters: Georgy Woolsey, part of a large family living comfortably in New York Jemma, a slave trying to survive the godawful system and get away if she can and Anne-Marie, a young, just-married Southern belle who owns Jemma, among other slaves, and is entirely self-concerned. The book is set in North/South border states, major cities and battlefields from 1859 to 1864, just before and during the Civil War. From its title, Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly sounds like it could be happy-smiley-giggly “women’s fiction,” doesn’t it? Perhaps a lot of fashion, romance and swooning? Nope.
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