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Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, born on a James River plantation, confronts the contradictions of her family’s wealth and the institution of slavery. Growing up in the mid‑nineteenth‑century South, she resists her domineering father’s expectations and later marries Quincy Lowell of Boston. Together they settle in Raleigh on the eve of the Civil War. As the conflict ravages the nation, Emma assists her surgeon husband treating wounded soldiers, developing a grim view of the war as one waged by wealthy elites and fought by the poor. After Union victory, she and Quincy return to Boston, where Emma embarks on a journey of personal reconstruction.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Kaye Gibbons
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