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From the Dust of Death is a historical novel based on many actual
events that took place after the Civil War during the years of the
Southern Convict Lease System. The reader will follow the struggle
and survival of heroine Grace Lively, a Southern lady who finds
herself enmeshed in the evil society of the Southern Convict Lease
System. Grace fights to stay alive in the lucrative system of
leasing hundreds of prisoners to companies for pennies a day, an
unforgiving system that became the primary penal caretaker
following the war. The prisons were unclean and housed both male
and female prisoners. Children were born and had to endure, along
with adults, extreme heat and cold, starvation, and cruel
punishment, which often resulted in death. This story will capture
the attention of both young and older readers as they follow the
chronicles of the heroine's journey from the time period 1865 to
1877. The story moves from the rice fields of Atlanta to the cotton
fields of Mississippi to the coal mines of Tennessee. The heroine
is joined in the struggle by a Northern Union officer she met for a
brief period during the war. Finding each other again, years later,
their work together becomes a journey to abolish the cruel system.
From the Dust of Death is a historical novel based on many actual
events that took place after the Civil War during the years of the
Southern Convict Lease System. The reader will follow the struggle
and survival of heroine Grace Lively, a Southern lady who finds
herself enmeshed in the evil society of the Southern Convict Lease
System. Grace fights to stay alive in the lucrative system of
leasing hundreds of prisoners to companies for pennies a day, an
unforgiving system that became the primary penal caretaker
following the war. The prisons were unclean and housed both male
and female prisoners. Children were born and had to endure, along
with adults, extreme heat and cold, starvation, and cruel
punishment, which often resulted in death. This story will capture
the attention of both young and older readers as they follow the
chronicles of the heroine's journey from the time period 1865 to
1877. The story moves from the rice fields of Atlanta to the cotton
fields of Mississippi to the coal mines of Tennessee. The heroine
is joined in the struggle by a Northern Union officer she met for a
brief period during the war. Finding each other again, years later,
their work together becomes a journey to abolish the cruel system.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
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