Read Series: Plantation Trilogy
by Author Gwen Bristow
Book
Deep Summer (1947)
Not long before the American Revolution, Judith Sheramy, a Puritan girl from New England, rode a flatboat down the Mississippi River with her family. On the river she met an adventurer, Philip Larne -- cavalier and slave smuggler. The story of Judith and Philip is one of struggle - the passionat...
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The Handsome Road (1974)
This was the 2nd book in the trilogy and takes place up to and after the civil war. It is from the point of view of Corrie Mae, a "white trash" girl and Anne Larne, a plantation artistocrat and the difference in their living circumstances. There is a line in the book:"Nigger pick de cotton, nigg...