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539 pages (large print) ; 23 cm 1875: Drunken Bride, Texas. An ex-slave named Persimmon Wilson awaits his hanging for the murder of the man who once owned him. As he waits, he pens his story. The journey of Persimmon Wilson takes the reader from the brutality of slavery on a Louisiana sugar plantation to a ranch on the Texas frontier to life among the Comanche Indians. All through his travels, Persimmon Wilson seeks the one person he loves, a light-skinned house slave named Chloe. When he finds her, she is passing for white and is the wife of their former master Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-531)

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Author

Peacock, Nancy, author

Publisher

Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781410496782

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (407 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14