Description

When rich plantation manager Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he provides her with a marriage present: a servant girl named Sarah. It just so happens that Sarah is Allen's child too, the merchandise of the long term intimate relationship together with his servant Emmeline. Clarissa's partner denies her newborn boy as unlawful when and directs Sarah and Clarissa back again to the Allens, their return packages in-motion a number of activities that'll ruin the once-strong family. Informed through the switching watch factors of Theodora and Debbie Allen, Corneliusis spouse, The Marriage Present shines a light to the world of slavery in the antebellum American South.