Historically, the word "wench" was born around 1290 A.D., and was then just a synonym for a young woman. By the 14th century, it degenerated into a slang term for a girl of ill repute.

Like The Help, Wench immerses readers in its characters' complex emotional lives. We meet four slave women in this narrative who all deal in different ways with their predicament.

Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez' "Wench" is the story of four women who met at Tawawa House, where wealthy Southern slaveholders would take their slave mistresses for open-air "vacations." ...

After 50 years, Disney plans to remove the “Wench Auction” section from its fan-favorite “Pirates of the Caribbean’” ride at its parks, a Disney spokeswoman told CNN on Friday.