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Warner
January 2007
On Sale: January 3, 2007
432 pages
ISBN: 0446578983
EAN: 9780446578981
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Fiction
They are men whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the
Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of
emancipation through the turbulent years of Reconstruction.
Portraying the lives of the families who dwell in The
Bottom, a poor settlement just down Red River from Colfax,
Louisiana, Tademy begins her story with a heart-wrenching
battle for the Colfax courthouse. Newly freed men are
fighting for their liberties, hoping the federal government
will come to their aid. As tensions rise, a massacre ensues,
and proud families are left to deal with the wreckage and
find the strength to push on. Drawn from both historic fact
and the author's own family history, Tademy brings to life a
historical human drama left untold--until now.
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