The (Messed Up) Wedding Gift

Here is an interview with lawyer and author Marlen Suyata Bodden, who wrote the 

fictional The Wedding Gift.  The book is set in the 1850s American South and tells a story where a slave master gives his daughter a slave as a wedding gift.  It just so happens that the slave is also his offspring, and the half-sister of the now married white daughter.

I will delve into chronocentric judgment--but this gift is inappropriate on so many levels.

 The novel not only raises the issues of gifting human beings on the basis of their race--but injects a new wrinkle in thinking about people as property--when the property interest in the person is held by a sibling.  I am sure that work has covered the cognitive dissonance of slave masters and their slave children, but I am not aware of work about the relationships between non-slave and slave siblings.
The premise of The Wedding Gift reminds me of another novel about slaves and property released in 2003, called Property by  Valerie Martin.