She had fed the farm slaves their morning meal when she saw the sun from the kitchen window and sensed a power that spoke through nature: the surrounding forests and hills and in the great sugar trees covering the northern part of her island, where she wandered in the hour or two that she had free of her chores every week. [...] Sarah remembered her childhood on this little Island, about three miles long in the Ohio River between Virginia and Ohio, the games played with the children of the slaves who lived in huts near the house, and the wild boy George Brown, Hugh’s son and the Colonel’s nephew, who swam across to the island with Indian boys from Ohio to mix in their games. [...] The Colonel, glad to get a strong, intelligent man in his twenties, who was willing to work for little more than his keep, sent him to supervise the slaves who were pulling boul- ders out of the shallow parts of the river and planting wheat and corn on the southern part of the island. [...] The son climbed into the wagon to take the reins and the Colonel sat beside him, adjusted his sword and nodded to his son, who drove to where the three sisters stood. [...] Among the people who came on business to see the Colonel was Beseleel Wells, the son of a friend who had fought alongside the Colonel in the Revolution and in Indian skir- mishes on the Ohio River, where he was killed and scalped.
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- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 9780915317301 0915317141
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.B3762
- LCCN Item number
- S27 2004eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (461 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00223135 (OCoLC)753314809 (CaOOCEL)431489
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
