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1	Uncle Tom's cabin or Life among the lowly more books like this by Harriet Beecher Stowe Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has remained controversial to this day, seen as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Absalom Absalom more books like this by William Faulkner Narrated by Quentin Compson, the suicide in "The Sound and the Fury", this is the tale of Thomas Sutpen, a poor White who dreams of founding a dynasty. His refusal to accept his wife's Negro blood initiates a bloody train of events to create a vision of doom of the American South. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.66! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Come Love a Stranger more books like this by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss A woman with no name and no memory...The two men who claim her:one with love, the other with fear...A dazzling tale of secret passions--and a love tragically lost and miraculously reborn--by the incomparable storyteller. Mere days after Ashton Wingate's wedding to the enchanting Lierin, capricious Fate stole the Mississippi plantation owner's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Property more books like this by Valerie Martin From the acclaimed author of "Mary Reilly," a groundbreaking novel that reexamines the questions of power and resistance, violence and sex, which inform all her work. Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum South during a slave rebellion, PROPERTY takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a voice rarely heard in American ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Where Shadows Go more books like this by Eugenia Price America's first lady of storytelling is back with the eagerly awaited sequel to her bestselling novel Bright Captivity. After giving up a career as a British Royal Marine, John agrees to his wife's fondest wish: that they return to her family's plantation. Filled with characters drawn from history, lore, and the author's own vivid imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $67.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Pawleys Island more books like this by Dorothea Benton Frank (Read by) Dorothea Benton Frank returns to South Carolina's Low Country for another story about a woman who flees there looking for solace. Rebecca is a painter whose marriage has broken up. She's depressed and disgusted, and has lost custody of her children. On the island, she encounters a community of people who truly care about her, including Abigail ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Texas Woman more books like this by Joan Johnston 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	A Perilous Proposal more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.71! \| SVS
10	The slave community; plantation life in the antebellum South more books like this by John W. Blassingame see all copies from $2.17! new only from $29.50! \| first editions
11 view cover	Twelve Years a Slave more books like this by Solomon Northup 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 $6.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	47 more books like this by Walter Mosley A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery. 47 meets a strange being named Tall John who appears to be another slave boy - a runaway. But as 47 comes to realise, John is an extraterrestrial visitor who believes that his destiny is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Angels Watching Over Me more books like this by Michael R Phillips Book 1 of SHENANDOAH SISTERS. Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families. When these tragic circumstances bring them together, they join forces to discover if they can make a life for themselves. As their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.60! \| SVS
14 view cover	Delta wedding more books like this by 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Soldier's Lady more books like this by Michael Phillips The young women of Rosewood face new challenges--and old enemies--when a wounded black soldier rides into town. Micah Duff is an educated, spiritual man, and even though he and "scatterbrained" Emma are very different, the two soon fall in love. But an ambitious white man who can't afford any skeletons in his closet--or a black son--plans to get ... see all copies from $2.73! new only from $5.92! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Never Too Late more books like this by Michael Phillips Seffie began life as a slave, companion to a sickly white girl and privileged to learn to read and write and even speak French. But her life of relative comfort is about to come to an end. Loss and tragedy work hard to drive the joy from Seffie's heart, but she has a drive of her own: to seek a new life in the North. But even if she succeeds, can ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Polished Hoe more books like this by Austin Clarke When Mary Mathilda of the West Indies' Birnshire Island confesses to killing a powerful sugar plantation owner, whom she has served for more than thirty years and who is the father of her grown son, she sets off a devastating all-night vigil. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Miss Katie's Rosewood more books like this by Michael Phillips This is the stirring conclusion to the "Carolina Cousins" series! A lone rider galloped through the night. He could not slow down or it would be too late. Many lives, and his own future, depended on his getting there in time...Winds of change are blowing over the Carolina cotton fields...changes that will rock the lives of all those who live at ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.60! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Pattern of Her Heart more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.89! \| SVS
20 view cover	Desire in the Sun more books like this by Karen Robards Joss San Pietro was raised a gentleman but was cruelly betrayed. Held captive and enslaved, the proud man's fate now rests in the gentle hands of an extraordinary lady--Lilah Remy, a beautiful pampered daughter of privilege. For a strange destiny has cast them together on tempestuous seas, and shipwrecked and alone they must courageously face ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Pawleys Island: 7 more books like this by Dorothea Benton Frank Dorothea Benton Frank returns to South Carolina's Low Country for another story about a woman who flees there looking for solace. Rebecca is a painter whose marriage has broken up. She's depressed and disgusted, and has lost custody of her children. On the island, she encounters a community of people who truly care about her, including Abigail ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Vanishing Point more books like this by 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Racing Moon more books like this by Cassie Edwards Commissioned to paint watercolors at a Louisiana cotton plantation, Irish artist Maureen O'Rourke spies Racing Moon, a chief of the Chitimacha. She longs to capture his beauty on canvas. But when the chief returns her admiration, their newfound passion ignites the rage of Racing Moon's bitterest enemy. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Lanterns on the Levee - Recollections of a Planter's Son more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Bloodroot more books like this by 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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