| Edition |
Center Point Large Print edition. |
| Description |
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| Physical Medium |
large print. rdafs |
| Note |
Regular print version previously published by: Kensington Publishing Corp. |
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Includes discussion questions. |
| Summary |
"In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history--Southern Abolitionists--and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Mississippi, 1859. Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping to eventually set them free. One, a woman named Ginny, has become his daughter's companion. When Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family, it sets off a tangled, tragic string of events when the family arrives at the Matthews farm. A young doctor, Charles Slate, tends to injured Nathan and begins to court Emily, finally persuading her to become his wife. But their union is disrupted by a fatal clash and a lie that will tear two families apart. -- adapted from back cover |
| Subject |
American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
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Abolitionists -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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Abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00794478
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Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
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Mississippi. (OCoLC)fst01207034
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1861-1865
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781643582160 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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164358216X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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