Sapphira & the Slave Girl

Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather''s last novel, published in 1940. The story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira''s slaves.* * *In this story I have called several of the ...