{"id":26537,"date":"2020-12-14T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/?post_type=product&p=26537"},"modified":"2022-01-21T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T05:11:28","slug":"sapphira-and-the-slave","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/sapphira-and-the-slave\/","title":{"rendered":"Sapphira and the Slave"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In her final novel, Willa Cather departed from her usual Great Plains settings to plumb the turbulent relationships between slaves and their owners in the antebellum South.
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\nSapphira and the Slave Girl\u00a0<\/i>is set in Virginia just before the Civil War. Sapphira is a slave owner who feels she has come down in the world and channels her resentments into jealousy of her beautiful mulatto slave, Nancy. Sapphira\u2019s daughter Rachel, an abolitionist, opposes her mother\u2019s increasingly shocking attempts to persecute Nancy. The struggles of these three strong-willed women provide rich material for Cather\u2019s narrative art and psychological insight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[684,685],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n