One day Lilith is giving the master of the house a bath and makes a remark that he does not like. When the master and mistress kill the slave that performs most of the duties in the house, including giving sexual favors to the master, Lilith has to take her place. Humphrey gives permission for Lilith’s whippings to start again. At Coulibre, Lilith sees the harsh treatment the slaves receive. Isobel has noticed Lilith trying to get Humphrey’s attention and says that she plans to keep an eye on her. The whippings stop when her father, Jack Wilkins, comes and demands that they end.Īfterward, Humphrey sends Lilith to Isobel’s home, Coulibre.
The slave drivers take Lilith and rape her while the party continues. After the fall, however, her life changes. Up until this time, Lilith has led a protected life and has never received a whipping. She is too sure of herself, though, and falls while carrying a tray of soup.
This pleases Lilith because she has a crush on Humphrey and she wants to get his attention by impressing hm. With one less slave, Lilith has to participate in the ball. Lilith’s half-sister tells her it is because Lilith wished her dead. This makes Lilith mad and she goes to one of her half-sisters to work magic that will cause one of the slaves participating in the event to get sick. She chooses her own staff and does not include Lilith. A young woman from a neighboring estate with eyes for the mistress’ son, Humphrey, comes and takes over the planning. The mistress is crazy, though, and during one of her mad periods, she stops planning for the ball. She chooses Lilith as one of the servers. While Lilith is at the main house, the mistress starts planning a New Year's Eve ball. Lilith thinks that she is better than all of them and does not want to join their group. At the first meeting, Lilith finds out that these women are her half- sisters and that their father is the overseer, Jack Wilkins, who placed her with Circe and Tantalus. While Lilith is there, Homer teaches her to read and leads her to the meeting of the night women where Homer and five other women are plotting to take their freedom. They conceal the body and Homer takes Lilith with her to the main house. When Circe comes home, she finds Lilith with the dead body.Ĭirce gets Homer, an even more powerful slave than Circe, to help with the situation. Rather than succumbing, Lilith kills the man who tries to rape her. Around the same time, Lilith experiences an attempted rape. Lilith believes that Circe and Tantalus are her parents until she is 14, when Circe tells her that she is not her mother. Her mother dies in childbirth and the overseer, Jack Wilkins, places Lilith with a slave named Circe and a mad slave named Tantalus, as all of the other women are afraid of her because of her eyes. Lilith, a green-eyed mulatto girl is born into slavery. The Book of Night Women is a historical novel that begins in 1785 in Jamaica.
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