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The Lords of Wensy Wells Kindle Edition

by Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 31 ratings

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Her mother is white. Her father is black. Her faith is dead.

Having escaped to New York City from her white grandfather’s Georgia sea-island cotton plantation, a little slave girl known only as Child is sold back downriver before her sixth birthday to a self-described Christian Mississippi planter named Hanson Wells.

Amidst suppressed memories of her Georgia grandfather-master’s abuse, also in the name of Christianity, she finds herself subjected to a second master's twelve-year, ill-reasoned experiment to prove her—thus the entire black race—subhuman. But days before her seventeenth birthday, Wensy Wells, formerly Child, discovers the hatred buried within for both her grandfather and Hanson Wells, cementing her long-held belief that no slave in her right mind could ever consider serving the white man's god.

Hanson Wells, a scheming yet disturbed ex-Pennsylvanian turned wealthy Mississippi planter, has long been in search of a suitable sacrifice in the biblical sense to atone for defying his Quaker father by owning slaves. Irrevocably attached to the greed of the cotton industry, he forces himself to pay an extravagant sum for a black child and sets out to prove, through the best of tutors, that all African descendants are intellectually inferior. But the experiment backfires as young Wensy signals genius and, as she develops into a stunning figure of a woman, his alleged Christian intention to use her as research turns lecherous.

Not until Wensy collides with the inner peace of Justice Hampton, an abducted free man of color, is she forced to consider another view of God, as well as a possible way to escape the "wet stares" of Hanson Wells which have grown increasingly disconcerting over time. But after a lifetime of serving two deranged masters, will she listen to Justice as he tries to convince her that God exists and cares?

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09PFKJM97
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 29, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2888 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 426 pages

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Wondrously storytelling.

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2023

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This novel captured my attention with the raw horrors of slavery. And somehow I was bought to tears of joy from the resilience of hope in the human spirit and faith in our Creator. The author wields a powerful tale of love, and hate and everything between those two divides.

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