Slaves Cottage is a 1935 novel by the American writer George L. Howe. It was the debut novel of Howe, and takes place in contemporary New England.Saturday Review of Literature: Volume 12. Saturday Review Associates, 1935. p.10Warfel p.217 Howe later went on to serve in the OSS and enjoyed great success with his novel Call It Treason in 1949.Purse & Wölfel p.100
Synopsis On the coast of New England the Vandeleur family are living in the cramped surroundings of the cottage once used to house slaves. They are descended from a noted eighteenth century slave trader but now shorts of funds are waiting for a large inheritance that they believe will change their fortunes. They retain a stand-offish attitude with the local villagers.
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