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HODES, Martha Sea Captain's Wife : A True Story of Love, Race & War in the Nineteenth Century. 1st pbk.
Norton, New York, 2007, ISBN:9780393330298
HODES, Martha. The Sea Captain's Wife : A True Story of Love, Race & War inthe Nineteenth Century . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (2007). First Pa perback Printing. Pp. (16),[17]-384. Illustrsated. 8vo, illustrated card covers with pale blue spine. "From 500 family letters, award-winning historian Martha Hodes recreates the extraordinary life of an ordinary nineteenth-century woman. Euince Connolly, born white and poor in New England, watched her brothers and husband fight on opposite sides of the Civil War, then fell in love with a well-to-do black sea captain from the West Indies. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history: opportunity and racism, slavery and war, equality and freedom." - from the rear cover. Vg. 12.00
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12.00 CDN
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