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What a wonderful story! This has been sitting on my shelf for a long time waiting to be read, and now I wish I had read it sooner. It is the first in a trilogy of historical fiction, and is set in several states, with the main part of the story taking place in northern Florida and Georgia. James Gould is a talented builder and timber man whose life is a roller coaster of good times and tragedy. It is fiction but based on the real people who developed islands off the coast of Georgia as well as S
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This book was first published in 1971. The author, Eugenia Price, based the novel on real people who lived 1790s through the early 1800s. She invented their thoughts and feelings -- this is a novel, not a biography. The characters were believing Christians and prayed and attended church. Eugenia Price obviously admires the main characters in the novel, but she has a problem: they owned slaves. How do you make slaveholders into good, noble, Christian people? And the slaves -- like the slaves in G
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