Southern Winds A’ Changing

Fiction & Literature, Historical, Literary
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Author: Elizabeth Carroll Foster ISBN: 9781491701089
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: August 15, 2013
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Elizabeth Carroll Foster
ISBN: 9781491701089
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: August 15, 2013
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

It is 1932, and racial prejudice is common in Deer Point, Arkansas, where the lives of two womena white school teacher and an African American sharecropperare destined to become forever entwined. As Allise DeWitt gives birth to her first child, her husband, Quent, rapes eighteen-year-old African American Maizee Colson on their cotton farm. Fearing that Quent will terrorize her forever, Maizees parents take her to Texas, where, nine months later, she gives birth to a son whom she names Nathaniel.

As Allise and Quent settle into life as new parents, she cannot shake the feeling that something is wedging its way between them. Financial troubles brought on by the Great Depression plague Quent, and he is forced to send his farmhands packing. Driven by the need to help and to do the right thing, Allise heads up a church project to donate clothing and other items to the sharecroppers. Years later, Quent is killed while fighting in World War ll, and Allise finds happiness in a second marriage to Dro McClure. Allises charitable journey continues, however, leading her through peril and prejudice and eventually bringing her to uncover a shocking truth that will change her life forever.

In this historical novel, an independent Quaker school marm attempts to overcome racial inequity in her small community, inextricably intertwining her life with an unlikely friend who proves that peace is attainable even in the darkest of times.

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It is 1932, and racial prejudice is common in Deer Point, Arkansas, where the lives of two womena white school teacher and an African American sharecropperare destined to become forever entwined. As Allise DeWitt gives birth to her first child, her husband, Quent, rapes eighteen-year-old African American Maizee Colson on their cotton farm. Fearing that Quent will terrorize her forever, Maizees parents take her to Texas, where, nine months later, she gives birth to a son whom she names Nathaniel.

As Allise and Quent settle into life as new parents, she cannot shake the feeling that something is wedging its way between them. Financial troubles brought on by the Great Depression plague Quent, and he is forced to send his farmhands packing. Driven by the need to help and to do the right thing, Allise heads up a church project to donate clothing and other items to the sharecroppers. Years later, Quent is killed while fighting in World War ll, and Allise finds happiness in a second marriage to Dro McClure. Allises charitable journey continues, however, leading her through peril and prejudice and eventually bringing her to uncover a shocking truth that will change her life forever.

In this historical novel, an independent Quaker school marm attempts to overcome racial inequity in her small community, inextricably intertwining her life with an unlikely friend who proves that peace is attainable even in the darkest of times.

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