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-- Born in bondage at Arlington, Selina Norris Gray learns to read and write in the schoolroom Mary and her mother keep for the slave children and eventually becomes Mary's housekeeper and confidante. As Mary's health declines, Selina becomes her personal maid, strengthening a bond that lasts until death parts them. -- In a story spanning crude slave quarters, sunny schoolrooms, stately wedding parlors, and cramped birthing rooms, novelist Dorothy Love amplifies the astonishing true-life account of an extraordinary alliance and casts fresh light on the tumultuous years leading up to and through the wrenching battle for a nation's soul.A classic American tale, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray is the first novel to chronicle this beautiful fifty-year friendship forged at the crossroads of America's journey from enslavement to emancipation. |
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Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1873 -- Fiction.
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Lee, Mary Randolph Custis, 1807-1873. |
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1800-1899 |
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African American women -- Fiction.
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Slaves -- United States -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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African American women. |
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Female friendship. |
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Slaves. |
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United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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History.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780718042431 : $13.99 |
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0718042433 : $13.99 |
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