Still she retains her connection to Mattie, befriending Samuel and drifting comfortably between the two worlds. Growing up under Mattie’s tender care, little Lisbeth adopts the woman’s deep-seated faith in God, her love of music and black-eyed peas, and the tradition of hunting for yellow crocuses in the early days of spring.Īs the years pass, Lisbeth is drawn slowly back into her white parents’ world and begins to learn the ins and outs of life for a high-born young lady. But Mattie is a slave, with no say in the matter, and so she devotes herself to her master’s daughter, though she longs to be raising her own child. For a field hand like Mattie, her transfer to the big house is supposed to be considered an honor-except that the move tears Mattie away from her beloved grandfather and her infant son, Samuel. Seconds later, she is delivered into the arms of her black wet nurse, Mattie. In 1837, Lisbeth Wainwright is born to the white mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation.
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