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In contemporary New York City, attorney Carolina Sparrow is working on an historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. In 1852, Josephine is a house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco plantation; her mistress is the artist Lu Anne Bell. The two stories converge when Lina hears of a controversy rocking the art world: art historians now suspect that the paintings ascribed to Lu Anne Bell may really h ...more
In contemporary New York City, attorney Carolina Sparrow is working on an historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. In 1852, Josephine is a house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco plantation; her mistress is the artist Lu Anne Bell. The two stories converge when Lina hears of a controversy rocking the art world: art historians now suspect that the paintings ascribed to Lu Anne Bell may really h ...more
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