The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN-10
0393052664
ISBN-13
9780393052664
Series
The Sea Captain's Wife
Category
United States
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Martha Elizabeth Hodes

Description

An award-winning historian chronicles the remarkable life of Eunice Connolly, her poverty-stricken upbringing in New England, marriage to a Southern man who died fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War, return to New England, marriage to a black sea captain, and move to the West Indies, based on a collection of five hundred family letters.

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