A Tale of the South
Adina Alexander
- Commencing
- in
- Boston
- in
- the
- pre-
- and
- duration-era
- of
- the
- American
- Civil
- War,
- two
- white
- men
- vie
- for
- the
- love
- of
- a
- woman.
- The
- jealous
- rejected
- suitor
- arranges
- for
- his
- victorious
- rival
- to
- be
- abducted,
- dipped
- in
- a
- staining
- solution
- and
- sold
- South
- as
- a
- slave.
- His
- trials
- and
- struggle
- to
- survive
- make
- gripping
- reading,
- as
- one
- follows
- his
- life
- in
- slavery.
- The
- islands
- of
- love
- and
- humanity
- encountered
- in
- a
- sea
- of
- extreme
- cruelty,
- unbelievable
- suffering
- and
- degradation
- are
- rendered
- all
- the
- more
- precious
- for
- their rarity.
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