In the Fire of Spring - Hardcover

Tryon, Thomas

 
9780394585888: In the Fire of Spring

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The arrival of an escaped mulatto slave girl named Rose in the town of Pequott Landing, Connecticut, sets off an internecine struggle over the abolition of slavery

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The Civil War is still twenty years away when Rose, an escaped mulatto slave girl, arrives in the town of Pequot Landing. Soon after, a school for "colored misses" is established. This fuels a firestorm between the abolitionist Talcott family and the wealthy Grimes family, owners of mills that depend on slave-picked cotton. Into the blaze steps schoolmistress Georgiana Ross and rakehell sea captain Sinjin Grimes. Now all these players find themselves caught up in the dramatic sweep of history . . .

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ISBN 10:  0804113025 ISBN 13:  9780804113021
Publisher: Ivy Books, 1994
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