Lydia Bailey
(2021)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : eBookIt.com, 2021
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781456636456 (electronic bk.) MWT13944203, 1456636456 (electronic bk.) 13944203
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A fascinating, thoroughly researched historical novel of Haiti and Africa, and the early United States, outlining Haitians battle for freedom seen through the eyes of one man. It features Albion Hamlin, who comes to Boston in 1800 to defend a man accused of violating the Alien and Sedition Act. In a whirlwind of action, Hamlin is jailed, and then escapes to Haiti in search of his client's daughter, Lydia Bailey, with whom he has fallen in love simply by gazing at her portrait
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