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The Sea Captain's Wife - A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Sea Captain's Wife - A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Loot Price R469
Discovery Miles 4 690
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Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the
extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New
England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in
the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the
Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her
husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a
widow and the mother of two, Eunice barely got by as a washerwoman,
struggling with crushing depression. Four years later, she fell in
love with a black sea captain, married him, and moved to his home
in the West Indies. Following every lead in a collection of 500
family letters, Hodes traced Eunice's footsteps and met descendants
along the way. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand
themes of American history-opportunity and racism, war and
freedom-and illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past. A
Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a selection of the Book
of the Month Club, Literary Guild, and Quality Paperback Book Club.
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