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  • All four women are vividly drawn from Mawu, who is rebellious and headstrong, to Sweet who is the earth mother of the group, to Reenie who is the oldest of the four women.

    Scandalous Book Review: Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • They don't bother too much with questions of freedom, though the resort is situated in free territory-but when truth-telling Mawu comes to the resort and starts talking of running away, things change.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • The book follows the lives of four slave women, Lizzie, Reenie, Sweet and Mawu, the wenches of the title.

    Scandalous Book Review: Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • The book follows the lives of four slave women, Lizzie, Reenie, Sweet and Mawu, the wenches of the title.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • All four women are vividly drawn from Mawu, who is rebellious and headstrong, to Sweet who is the earth mother of the group, to Reenie who is the oldest of the four women.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • They don't bother too much with questions of freedom, though the resort is situated in free territory-but when truth-telling Mawu comes to the resort and starts talking of running away, things change.

    Scandalous Book Review: Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • To the Fon people in Benin, West Africa, the god Liza is representative of the sun, while his twin Mawu is associated with the moon.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009

  • To the Fon people in Benin, West Africa, the god Liza is representative of the sun, while his twin Mawu is associated with the moon.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009

  • I had to pay off my debts, said Wu, 44, a farmer from Mawu village in eastern Beijing ...

    Boing Boing 2006

  • Her union work started in the mid 80's when she was a shopsteward (for Mawu and later Numsa) at National Bolt in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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