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Author:
Johnstone, William W.,
Title:
This violent land / Robert Johnson.
Edition:
Large Print edition.
Publisher:
Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, Cengage Learning,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
457 p. : 23 cm.
Subject:
Stone, William,--1842-1897--Fiction.
United States.--Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Fiction.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--South Carolina--Fiction.
South Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950--Fiction.
South Carolina--Race relations--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Large type books.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379).
Summary:
"Historical fiction based on journals and correspondence of William Stone, Union veteran and head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Aiken, South Carolina, during Reconstruction. Major Stone's story involves violence, prejudice, politics, compassion, justice, and romance. The Ku Klux Klan, freed blacks, Edgefield plantation owners, and Quaker educators all play roles"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Smoke Jensen series 2
ISBN:
1410488314
9781410488312
LCCN:
2016101629
Locations:
RUPC135 -- Manson Public Library (Manson)

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