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The Weight of Her Name: The Cost of Obedience by Dickie Erman
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ISBN:
9798247255208.0
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Sarah is an enslaved woman whose life is governed by routine, silence, and unspoken expectation. The Weight of Her Name: The Cost of Obedience is a historical novel set on a Southern plantation in 1860, on the eve of the Civil War. Within the Harrison household, obedience is not merely demanded, it is watched for, measured, and rewarded or punished in ways that are rarely explicit and never simple. Survival depends on knowing when to speak, when to remain still, and when even compliance carries its own danger.