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The sea captain's wife : a true story of love, race, and war in the nineteenth century

text The sea captain's wife : a true story of love, race, and war in the nineteenth century

Summary
Historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil W... Read more
Contents

A story and a history -- A carpenter's wife -- Yankee in the deep South -- Servant and washerwoman -- From widow to bride -- The sea captain's wife -- Hurricane -- Searching for Eunice.

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384 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Publisher
W.W. Norton 2006

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East Bay Branch Library 306.846 HOD in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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