Strangers and Sojourners in a Town Called Penryn: Adeline

When Adeline is taken from her birth mother at two years of age and placed in the Avans household in Lafayette Springs, Mississippi, her life’s purpose is set as a house slave. Six years later, Adeline’s routine existence is upended when her mistress marries longtime beau, Joseph Goldstan, and the newlyweds decide to relocate to Stewart’s Flat, California. Just like the wedding gifts, eight-year-old Adeline is packed up and dispatched to the newly formed “slave-free” state. She has been assigned to travel cross country via wagon train as an unpaid helper to the westward-bound Barton family. The Bartons (William, Catheraine, and one-year old daughter, Annelia) embrace the amiable young slave girl, showering her with love and acceptance, creating a longing in Adeline—a yearning to be a part of a true family, rather than be viewed as a non-person. So begins Adeline’s life story of despair and servitude amid her search for a family of her own.
ASIN: 1549950363
VSKU: BVV.1549950363.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Gavia, Monica Gillman
Binding: Paperback
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