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  • I don't know if this book is for everyone, but I am in love with the city of New Orleans and this book captures that spirit better than any other I have read. It is a pre-Civil War story that shows the lives of the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the creole, in settings that you can still see in ... Continue

    I don't know if this book is for everyone, but I am in love with the city of New Orleans and this book captures that spirit better than any other I have read. It is a pre-Civil War story that shows the lives of the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the creole, in settings that you can still see in the New Orleans of today.

    

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In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.

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