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Series
Jamestown 350th anniversary historical booklet volume no.17
Publisher
Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation
Pub. Date
1957.
Physical Desc
91 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's indifference, to sit for a portrait. It will be a testament to all the hardships she overcame, the glory her life ought to have been. As she sits for the portrait, other stories are revealed: that of Thisbe, an enslaved woman who must stand silent by her mistress but observes everything. Or Byron, heir...
Author
Series
Shenandoah sisters volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Katie and Mayme face new challenges to their safety and the survival of the plantation. Shenandoah Sisters book 3.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
485 pages : map ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."
Author
Series
Louisiana State University studies. Social science volume no. 1
Publisher
Louisiana State Universiy Press
Pub. Date
[1951]
Physical Desc
xiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
35) Old Louisiana
Author
Publisher
The Century Co
Pub. Date
[1929]
Physical Desc
xvi, 388 pages :bill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
37) Yellow Crocus
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she...
38) Delta wedding
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Series
Language
English
Description
Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for Dabney Fairchild's wedding. An only child whose mother has just died, Laura is resentful of her boisterous,...
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Language
English
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Description
In 1849, Pola has faced horror upon horror at the plantation ironically named Hacienda Paraíso, from endless degradations to rapes and beatings, her infants stolen and sold. Pola finally flees, confident in the protection of the Yoruba water goddess, Yemayá. Yet she is recaptured, beaten nearly to death, and sold to the owner of Hacienda las Mercedes. There Pola finds a very different life, one not without its dangers but with the potential for...
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