The book is set during Slavery at a Resort in Ohio called the Tawawa House. The Tawawa house was a place that Slave Owners could take their Slave Mistresses in a free state and bed them without any stigma or recompense.
In the chapters that I have read thus far, the slave women are discussing why they have not tried to run away since it is a free state and they come every year. At this point the book is very interesting because it is shedding light, in a fictional way on a part of slavery that is not often talked about. There is a part of the book where one of the slaves is pregnant and she gives birth to an obviously mulatto baby that dies after a few days. It was hard to read because since she was a slave she was not quite comforted by her master but you could tell that there was an affection.
During another part of the book, one of the new slave girls to the Tawawa house was plotting an escape. Before she could leave, one of the returning slaves told her master and caused the other slave to be whipped. It was a very hard scene but it also spoke to the aspect of slavery that allowed for groups of people to be imprisoned by the few for so many years, fear and self loathing.
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