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1	Twelve Years a Slave more books like this by Solomon Northup add to wishlist Gripping autobiography presents exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. "A moving, vital testament . . ."--"Saturday Review." 7 illus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text more books like this by William Faulkner add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.42! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Widow of the South more books like this by Robert Hicks add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The slave community; plantation life in the antebellum South more books like this by John W. Blassingame add to wishlist see all copies from $2.11! new only from $23.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Known World more books like this by E Jones add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Together Is All We Need more books like this by Michael Phillips add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
7	Uncle Tom's cabin or Life among the lowly more books like this by Harriet Beecher Stowe add to wishlist Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful but sentimental and stereotyped anti-slavery novel, published in 1852, was an inspiration to the abolitionist cause. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Texas Woman more books like this by Joan Johnston add to wishlist Volume three of the "Sisters of the Lone Star" trilogy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	AR'N't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South more books like this by Deborah Gray White add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.08! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Pattern of Her Heart more books like this by Tracie Peterson, Judith Miller add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	47 more books like this by Walter Mosley add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Bloodroot more books like this by Susan Wittig Albert add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A Perilous Proposal more books like this by Michael Phillips add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.66! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
14 view cover	Absalom Absalom more books like this by William Faulkner add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Never Too Late more books like this by Michael Phillips add to wishlist A tender romance is developing between Henry and Josepha, but when he learns that she hides a startling secret, will it tear them apart? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Soldier's Lady more books like this by Michael Phillips add to wishlist 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? see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.83! \| SVS
17 view cover	Lanterns on the Levee - Recollections of a Planter's Son more books like this by William Alexander Percy add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Property more books like this by Valerie Martin add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Vanishing Point more books like this by Mary Sharratt add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Delta wedding more books like this by Eudora Welty add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Rebellion and Revolution on a Virginia Plantation more books like this by Rhys Isaac add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| first editions
22 view cover	Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic more books like this by Erskine Clarke add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Savage Destiny more books like this by Cassie Edwards add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Under Live Oaks: The Last Great Houses of the Old South more books like this by Caroline Seebohm, Peter Woloszynski (Photographer) add to wishlist A photographic tour of the great houses of the South and the families who live in them. see all copies from $5.60! new only from $8.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean more books like this by Herbert S Klein add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions

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