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Apalachee (Paperback)
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Loot Price R561
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This powerful novel tells the story of Hinachuba Lucia, a Native
American wise woman caught in the rapidly changing world of the
early colonial South. With compelling drama and historical
accuracy, Apalachee portrays the decimation of the Indian mission
culture of Spanish Florida by English Carolina during Queen Anne's
war at the beginning of the eighteenth century and also portrays
the little-known institution of Indian slavery in colonial America.
The novel recounts the beginnings of the colony of South Carolina
and the struggle between the colonists and the Indians, who were at
first trading partners-bartering deerskins and Indian slaves for
guns and cloth-and then enemies in the Yamasee War of 1715. When
the novel opens, Spanish missionaries have settled in the Apalachee
homeland on what is now the eastern Florida panhandle, ravaging the
native population with disease and altering its culture with
Christianity. Despite these changes, the Apalachees maintain an
uneasy coexistence with the friars. Everything changes when English
soldiers and their Indian allies from the colony of Carolina invade
Spanish Florida. After being driven from her Apalachee homeland by
the English, Lucia is captured by Creek Indians and sold into
slavery in Carolina, where she becomes a house slave at Fairmeadow,
a turpentine plantation near Charles Town. Her beloved husband,
Carlos, is left behind, free but helpless to get Lucia back. Swept
by intricate and inexorable currents, Lucia's fate is interwoven
with those of Juan de Villalva, a Spanish mission priest, and Isaac
Bull, an Englishman in search of fortune in the New World. As the
three lives unfold, the reader is drawn into a morally complex
world where cultures meet and often clash. Both major and minor
characters come alive in Hudson's hands, but none so memorably as
the wise woman Lucia-beautiful, aristocratic, and strong. Informed
by the author's extensive research, Apalachee is an ambitious,
compelling novel that tells us as much about the ethnic and social
diversity of the southern colonies as it does about the human
heart.
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