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Author:
Peacock, Nancy,.
Title:
The life and times of Persimmon Wilson / Nancy Peacock.
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publisher:
HighBridge Audio
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
10 audio discs (12.5 hr) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject:
Slavery--Fiction.
Freedmen--Fiction.
Passing (Identity)--Fiction.
Sugar plantations--Louisiana--Fiction.
Comanche Indians--Fiction.
Texas--History--19th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Other Authors:
Jackson, J. D, Narrator.
Summary:
1875: Drunken Bride, Texas. An ex-slave named Persimmon Wilson awaits his hanging for the murder of the man who once owned him. As he waits, he pens his story. The journey of Persimmon Wilson takes the reader from the brutality of slavery on a Louisiana sugar plantation to a ranch on the Texas frontier to life among the Comanche Indians. All through his travels, Persimmon Wilson seeks the one person he loves, a light-skinned house slave named Chloe. When he finds her, she is passing for white and is the wife of their former master.
ISBN:
1681684098
9781681684093
Locations:
KOPC446 -- H.J. Nugen Public Library (New London)

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