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Drawn from new sources, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a gripping narrative that recreates the events that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure British admirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war.
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"Author Bill Sizemore tells the story of his slave-owning Virginia family, their slaves, and those slaves' descendants--a story that lay buried by a century of denial and historical amnesia. Its threads run through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the struggle for civil rights, and the crippling legacy of slavery that still plagues the nation today. In microcosm, it is the story of Virginia and the South. In telling it,...
115) Las olas del destino
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"Isla de Jamaica, 1753. Deidre, la hija de la inglesa Nora Fortnam y del esclavo Akwasi, lleva una vida protegida, en la plantación de su madre y de su padre adoptivo. Pese a los orígenes poco claros de la joven, los muchachos de la isla beben los vientos por ella. Deidre, sin embargo, no siente el menor interés por ninguno de ellos, hasta que el jóven médico Victor Dufresne pide su mano. Tras una espléndida ceremonia nupcial, la pareja de recién...