louisiana

Rippling Creek, Louisiana, 1948: Tate writes to Hank Williams about her film-star mother and famous-photographer father until, gradually, she gets to the truth.

Dr. Schilling, dying in his rural Louisiana home in the late 1940s, frets about the choices he has made in his life, and regrets the collapse of his family.

Chronicles the experiences of Solomon Northup after he was kidnapped from New York in 1841 and sold into slavery in the South.

Presents the true story of Solomon Northup, a born-free black man living in upstate New York. In 1841 he agreed to go with two men to Washington, D.C., supposedly to perform in a circus--instead the men drugged Solomon and took him to the South to sell him into slavery. For twelve years he worked for a variety of different masters, until he met a Canadian abolitionist who got word to his family.

In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.

Includes:The awakening.--Wiser than a god.--A point at issue!--A shameful affair.--Miss McEnders.--At the 'Cadian Ball.--Dsire's baby.--Madame Celestin's divorce.--A lady of Bayou St. John.--La belle Zorade.--A respectable woman.--The story of an hour.--Regret.--The kiss.--Athnase.--A pair of silk stockings.--The storm.--Charlie.

Autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free Black man from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped in 1841 and forced into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years. Also includes notes and historical context by Dr. Sue Eakin.

Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, and during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. This is his detailed description of slave life and plantation society.