![]() ![]() This sets Mawu in stark contrast to the other three women. Her master, Tip, is exceedingly cruel and subjects her to routine abuse. ![]() She behaves fearlessly, speaks frankly, and is unlike anyone they've ever seen before. When Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet first meet Mawu, they are immediately drawn to her. With flame-red hair and a firecracker personality to match, she talks of escape, prompting the other three women to seriously consider, for the first time, the confines of their lives and the possibilities that lay in fleeing their captors. Then, one day, a new slave, Mawu, arrives at Tawana House. Regulars at the resort, they have gotten to know one another well. Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are three slaves whose masters bring them to Tawana House every summer. Each summer for several years, they vacation at the Tawana House Resort in the free state of Ohio, where white masters and their black slave mistresses can live openly as if they are partners. Set in the years before the Civil War, it traces the journeys of four slave women whose masters keep them as mistresses. Wench is a historical novel by American author Dolen Perkins-Valdez. ![]()
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