The Sea Captain's Wife
A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century
By Martha Hodes
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393330298, 384pp.)
Publication Date: September 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (September 2006)
Categories: Minority Studies - Race Relations, United States - 19th Century, Women
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Description
A finalist for the Lincoln Prize, The Sea Captain's Wife "comes surprisingly, and movingly, alive" (Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly).
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