299U: Slave uprising/revolt

I read a book in the 90s….around 1990-1992 probably. It was checked out from the library so I don’t know how old it was. It was fiction.

The plot was of a wealthy white family, possibly English or British. They owned a number of slaves and the slaves revolted, killing everyone in the family except for a young girl 8-14 years old probably). I think they stabbed the family to death. The slaves took her to live with them and I remember her working outside to grow food and talking about how she would take off her shirt and let her skin get tan, which her mother would have hated. She loved the freedom of living with them. It seems like it was set in the late 1800s or early 1900s.

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