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Wow!! Simply, wow! One of my all time best reads!
This is the story of Lavania, a white girl who is placed into servitude on a tobacco plantation, after arriving in the U.S. from a ship from Ireland. This is her life story, from child to woman and the adopted black family she becomes a part of and the white plantation family where she is allowed / accepted into, in the Kitchen House, because of her skin colour.
This is a moving, gut-wrenching read that had me experiencing a range of emotions; sadn ...more
This is the story of Lavania, a white girl who is placed into servitude on a tobacco plantation, after arriving in the U.S. from a ship from Ireland. This is her life story, from child to woman and the adopted black family she becomes a part of and the white plantation family where she is allowed / accepted into, in the Kitchen House, because of her skin colour.
This is a moving, gut-wrenching read that had me experiencing a range of emotions; sadn ...more
Lavinia, a white orphan girl from Ireland raised as a slave is innocent (naïve) of her differences. While she knows her skin is white she doesn't understand that this makes her different from those she is raised among. She doesn't know of the laws that separate the classes in America. Can she transition from being raised among the slaves to the Lady of the big house?
We journey through the life of Lavinia and she goes from innocent childhood to early adulthood. Her emotions are well described as ...more
We journey through the life of Lavinia and she goes from innocent childhood to early adulthood. Her emotions are well described as ...more
The Kitchen House takes place on a Virginia tobacco plantation from 1791 through 1810 and is told from the alternating points of view of Lavinia and Belle. Lavinia is an orphaned indentured servant and Belle is the daughter of the plantation owner and a slave woman. After Lavinia's Irish parents die aboard his ship, Captain Madden takes her home to his plantation and leaves her with the slaves in the Kitchen house. She is traumatized and frightened and finds comfort and love with Mama Mae, Papa
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This is one of the most depressing books in existence. I spent the majority of my time reading this and crying. My book is all warped now from my tears. It's two days later and I'm finding it hard to write a review. The book was amazingly written and well researched. It is hard to comprehend the life that many of these people led. I know it's fiction, but the truth is in there. These things happened. So many slave families were torn apart because they were looked upon as property and not people.
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