Sapphira and the Slave Girl
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl is a 1940 historical novel by Willa Cather that explores slavery, power, and moral conflict in antebellum Virginia through the story of a white mistress and the enslaved young woman she seeks to control.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel → |
| author | Willa Cather NERFINISHED → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form: "United States"
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| depicts |
domestic slavery in the United States
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master–slave relationships → |
| explores |
female agency under slavery
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relationships between white slaveholders and enslaved people → religious and moral hypocrisy → |
| firstPublishedInForm | book → |
| genre |
Southern fiction
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historical fiction → |
| hasCharacter |
Jeff
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Martin Colbert → Till → |
| hasEnslavedCharacter | Nancy NERFINISHED → |
| hasForm | print → |
| hasHistoricalContext | slavery in the United States before the Civil War → |
| hasMoralFocus | conscience and complicity in slavery → |
| hasSubject |
escape from slavery
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family conflict → plantation life in Virginia → |
| hasTitleCharacter | Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert NERFINISHED → |
| language | English → |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature → |
| mainCharacter |
Henry Colbert
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Nancy NERFINISHED → Rachel Colbert NERFINISHED → Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert → |
| mainTheme |
moral conflict
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power dynamics → race relations in the United States → slavery → |
| narrativePerspective | first-person → |
| narrator | Rachel Colbert NERFINISHED → |
| notableFor | being Willa Cather’s last novel → |
| partOf |
Willa Cather
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surface form: "Willa Cather bibliography"
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| placeOfPublication | New York City → |
| publicationYear | 1940 → |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf NERFINISHED → |
| settingLocation | Virginia NERFINISHED → |
| settingPeriod | antebellum period → |
| structure | divided into five parts → |
| timeOfAction | 1850s → |
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