Jacob's ladder: a story of Virginia during the war

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W.W. Norton
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[1998]
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English
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A novel of the Civil War in which a young Southerner impregnates a black slave. The family quickly sells her, a white cotton trader marries and passes her off as white. But the girl was already married and her black husband runs away to join the Northern army in a bid to reclaim her.
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