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  by author911

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Jean Hackensmith

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Tags: slavery romance, time travel, white Jean Hackensmith, Passage, Destined

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Description: Brittany Cavanaugh, an oceanographer from the year 2001 and the second "rightful owner"Brittany Cavanaugh, an oceanographer from the year 2001 and the second "rightful owner" of a mysterious Haitian amulet, travels through time; first to the doomed ocean liner, Titanic, and then to the post Civil War era, where she is mistaken for the leader of an elusive White Slavery Ring.

She meets the infamous Jacques Devereaux, a dashing and extremely sexy Civil War blockade runner turned White Slaver, but her heart is torn when she must choose between the pirate and Clay Gentry, a refined southern gentleman who is in the midst of a desperate search for his missing twin sisters -- and the President's daughter.
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2008-05-01

  by debra47 & 33 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: —

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Authors: Sue Kidd Sue Monk Kidd

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Tags: fiction coming of slavery age south

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Description: In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic....

2006-12-01

  by betweenthelines & 1 users

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Type: children's

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Status: neutral

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Author: Mildred D. Taylor

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Tags: fiction slavery african-american opression

2006-07-16

  by smutne_reader & 13 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: to read

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Author: Harriet Beacher Stowe

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Tags: american racism slavery

2006-06-29

  by nshimmin & 2 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: liked

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Author: Stephen Wright

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Tags: slavery historical_fiction civil_war abolition

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Description: Liberty Fish is the son of two northern abolitionists; Thatcher, a traveling pastor, and Roxana,Liberty Fish is the son of two northern abolitionists; Thatcher, a traveling pastor, and Roxana, a former southerner who left her family's plantation over strong dissagreements over slavery. The book follows Liberty as he grows up in the time prior to and during the Civil War. ...

2006-03-20