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The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens
and known as the ""Queen of the Confederacy,"" Lucy Holcombe
Pickens (1832-1899) was during her lifetime one of the most famous
women in the South. Rumor was that in her youth she published a
novel under a pseudonym. Recently discovered as The Free Flag of
Cuba; or, The Martyrdom of Lopez: A Tale of the Liberating
Expedition of 1851, her 1854 book is a romanticized account of the
1851 fi libustering expedition to Cuba by Narciso Lopez. With this
new edition, Orville Vernon Burton and Georganne B. Burton
resurrect Holcombe's lost work and prove it to be a window on many
pressing nineteenth-century issues. A not-so-subtle plea for U.S.
support for Cuban independence from Spain, Holcombe's novel
vindicates Lopez and his men, who were officially regarded as
mercenaries, and declares them to be martyred heroes. The tale
clearly refi'ects the values southern aristocratic women expected
in men, even if preserving those values meant death and defeat, a
harbinger of ardent support for the Confederacy by women like Lucy.
With an illuminating introduction detailing the life of Lucy Petway
Holcombe Pickens and the historical context of her novel, this new
edition of The Free Flag of Cuba is a welcome glimpse into the mind
and value system of the southern belle who would become a southern
icon.
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