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When the pressures of early 1800s westward expansion and debt threaten to destroy everything he's built, a troubled Revolutionary War veteran embarks on an audacious plan involving setting one of his male slaves as his breeding sire.
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3 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 2013Atlantic Monthly Press · 408 pages · 9780802120663
- Other · English · 2013Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 384 pages · 9780802193780
- Other · French · 201610 X 18 · 480 pages · 9782264065582
Social life and customsSlavesHealersSlaveholdersSlaveryFictionHistorical fictionManners and customs