Summary of Yellow Crocus: by Laila Ibrahim | Includes Analysis

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Instaread, Inc
• Release date: May 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683782001

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Mattie is a field slave at Fair Oaks Estates who is assigned the task of being a wet nurse for newborn baby, Elizabeth Wainwright. Mattie must leave her own child, Samuel, in order to take care of Elizabeth. On a visit with her family, Mattie learns her husband, Emmanuel, wants to run away to Ohio. She convinces him to wait.

As Elizabeth gets older, and begins her lessons, Mattie asks her to teach Samuel how to read and write. He then teaches the other children in the slave quarters.

At the age of ten, Samuel is sold to another estate. Two weeks later, word comes that Samuel is missing. He was able to escape because he wrote his own travel pass. Elizabeth gets word that Emmanuel has also escaped. More than a year later, Mattie runs away and is reunited with her husband and son.

Elizabeth attends various dances and social functions throughout her teenage years. Eventually, after some pressure from her family and friends, Elizabeth becomes engaged to Edward although she is in love with a young man named Matthew Johnson. After a year of making wedding plans, a tea is held at the Cunningham estate for Elizabeth on her twenty-first birthday. Mrs. Cunningham asks Elizabeth to call Edward in from the garden. When Elizabeth goes out to the garden, she finds Edward having sexual relations with a young slave girl. Elizabeth is horrified and tells him she will never marry him.

To escape pressure from her family to repair her engagement, Elizabeth visits Matthew and asks him if he will marry her. They go to a justice of the