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Twelve Years a Slave
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Solomon Northup
Gripping autobiography presents exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. "A moving, vital testament . . ."--"Saturday Review." 7 illus.
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Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text
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William Faulkner
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! is often considered to be Faulkner's greatest book, and one of his most compelling explorations of race, gender, and the burdens of the past. The plot revolves around the character of Thomas Sutpen, son of poor whites in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Densely written and notoriously "difficult," the novel explores the ...
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The Widow of the South
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Robert Hicks
Based on a true story, THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH tells the stirring tale of a woman named Carrie McGavock, who is forever scarred by watching her two children die. When the Civil War comes to her Tennessee town, Carrie helps care for the wounded Confederate soldiers who arrive there after a bloody battle. Later, when the bodies of the dead are in ...
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The slave community; plantation life in the antebellum South
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John W. Blassingame
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Known World
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E Jones
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
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Together Is All We Need
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Michael Phillips
Shenandoah Sisters Book 4, the sequel to The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart. For over a year, Mayme--a former slave--and Katie have lived together on Katie's plantation, hiding the fact that they are orphans of war to avoid being separated. Together they have sheltered others and battled threats of foreclosure, theft, and ...
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Uncle Tom's cabin or Life among the lowly
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful but sentimental and stereotyped anti-slavery novel, published in 1852, was an inspiration to the abolitionist cause.
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Texas Woman
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Joan Johnston
Volume three of the "Sisters of the Lone Star" trilogy.
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AR'N't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
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Deborah Gray White
Living with the burden of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This work shows how black women experienced freedom in the Reconstruction South.
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The Pattern of Her Heart
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Tracie Peterson, Judith Miller
Lights of Lowell Book 3- When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation, The Willows. But upon her arrival, her anti-slavery positions cause strife between Jasmine and her neighbors and relatives. Tensions continue to rise until an explosive act--the ...
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47
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Walter Mosley
This stirring, mythic tale spun from history and legend begins in the year 1832, in Georgia. Bitter, abusive Master Tobias and his evil overseer, Mr. Stewart, run the Corinthian Plantation with iron fists. Slave number 47 is a young boy who has just begun to lose his childhood innocence to punishing work in the cotton fields when a magical runaway ...
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Bloodroot
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Susan Wittig Albert
In this Southern Gothic mystery, a contemporary woman, China Bayles, returns to her ancestral home, a Mississippi plantation called Jordan's Crossing, to help her mother care for her old great-aunt Tullie. When rakishly handsome neighbor Wiley Beauchamp is found murdered, the primary suspect turns out to be Tullie, whom Wiley had recently apprised ...
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A Perilous Proposal
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Michael Phillips
Two years have passed since the conclusion of the Shenandoah Sisters series, and Katie and Mayme are young women with big dreams, running Rosewood with the help of their two uncles and their friends Emma, Josepha, Jeremiah, and Henry. Jeremiah proposes to Mayme, but she is hesitant to accept. She loves him but does not want to give up her life at ...
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Absalom Absalom
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William Faulkner
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! is often considered to be Faulkner's greatest book, and one of his most compelling explorations of race, gender, and the burdens of the past. The plot revolves around the character of Thomas Sutpen, son of poor whites in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Densely written and notoriously "difficult," the novel explores the ...
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Never Too Late
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Michael Phillips
A tender romance is developing between Henry and Josepha, but when he learns that she hides a startling secret, will it tear them apart?
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The Soldier's Lady
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Michael Phillips
Presents the tragic romance of Emma and a wounded "buffalo soldier". When the two fall in love, it poses problems for William McSimmons' political career. Can their love keep them together?
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Lanterns on the Levee - Recollections of a Planter's Son
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William Alexander Percy
desire to reminisce arises not so much I think from the number of years you may happen to have ac cumulated as from the number of those who meant most to you in life who have gone on the long journey. They were the bulwarks, the bright spires, the strong places. When they have gone, you are a little tired, you rest on your oars, you say to ...
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Property
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Valerie Martin
Set during a slave rebellion in the days before the Civil War, PROPERTY is narrated by Manon Gaudet, a petulant and unhappy woman who runs a sugar plantation in Louisiana with her husband. Hopelessly innocent when she marries, Manon gradually realizes that her husband is a tyrannical slave-owner, and that he has forced a slave named Sarah to be ...
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The Vanishing Point
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Mary Sharratt
Constrained by their small 17th-century English town, two independent, spirited sisters push the limits of propriety--one journeys to America where she disappears, and the other, trained in the physician's arts, sets off to find her in a wild, uncultivated land where old rules no longer apply.
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Delta wedding
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Eudora Welty
It is 1923; little motherless Laura McRaven travels from Jackson, Mississippi, on a train named the Yellow Dog. She is returning to Shellmound, the family plantation in the heart of the delta, where she will gather with relatives for the marriage of Dabney, the prettiest of the Fairchild girls.
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Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Rebellion and Revolution on a Virginia Plantation
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Rhys Isaac
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Rhys Isaac mines this remarkable document-and many other sources-to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, ...
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Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
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Erskine Clarke
Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's "Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War" won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock ...
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Savage Destiny
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Cassie Edwards
Torn between two worlds, half-breed Red Feather realizes his younger brother is as obsessed with besting him as their father had been about keeping his Chitimacha princess. When Red Feather "wins" the auburn-haired Angela Dawn, his brother's mail-order bride, in a gambling match, he vows that nothing will keep him from her. Original.
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Under Live Oaks: The Last Great Houses of the Old South
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Caroline Seebohm, Peter Woloszynski (Photographer)
A photographic tour of the great houses of the South and the families who live in them.
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African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Herbert S Klein
This is an examination of slavery that covers the Spanish, Portuguese, and French regions of Latin America. Klein brings together the latest findings on the plantation system, demography, the slave trade, the construction of the slave community, and Afro-American culture. He focuses also on the attempts of the African and American-born slaves to ...
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