Sapphira and the Slave Girl. Willa Cather. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Original
Sapphira and the Slave Girl. Willa Cather. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Original pictorial dust jacket designed by Rudolph Ruzicka.Pastoral novel set in antebellum Virginia shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Specifically, it tells the story of Sapphira Colbert, a white woman who is irrationally concerned that her husband is having an affair with one of her slaves. Rather than present an argument for or against slavery, Cather attempts to paint a realistic portrait of the paradoxes inherent in the “peculiar institution” with this text. -- source link
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