The second sub-plot includes Lizzie’s interactions with Nathan Drayle, her master/husband-figure - whom she simply calls, “Drayle.” I was leery of the confidence Lizzie had in him and felt her misplaced trust would come back to bite her. Henry and George round out the group of male slaves - with the dimensions of Phillip’s character being the most developed. Phillip, another slave from the Drayle plantation, accompanies his master on the annual vacations as well. The first sub-plot centers around Lizzie and her summer friends from other plantations, Reenie, Sweet, and Mawu. The storyline consists of two sub-plots and vacillates between activities at the Ohio resort and the Drayle plantation in Tennessee. The story opens in media res during the summer of 1852 - the slaves’ second summer at the resort. The story covers three summers during the middle of the 19th century at a resort then known as the Tawawa House - which later became Ohio Africa University - which was ultimately named Wilberforce University - near Xenia, Ohio.
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