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  • Rice to Ruin

    The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929

    by Roy Williams III, Alexander Lucas Lofton ...
    The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynastyIn the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice ... Read more

    $66.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Steal Away Home

    One Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom - And Her Long Road Back to the South

    by Karolyn Smardz Frost ...
    For readers of The Underground Railroad, The Known World, Bound for Canaan and The Book of Negroes comes the harrowing story of fifteen-year-old escaped slave Cecelia Reynolds, who slips away to freedom in Canada only to return to her childhood home as a free woman many years later.“Karolyn Smardz Frost deftly situates Cecelia in history. Her evocative descriptions of landscapes and cityscapes ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Who Was George Washington?

    by Roberta Edwards, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by True Kelley ...
    Series series Who Was?
    In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called the father of our country for leading America through its early years. Washington also served in two major wars during his lifetime: the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. With over 100 black-and-white illustrations, Washington's fascinating story comes to life - revealing the real man, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Slaves in the Family

    by Edward Ball ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author.The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Saving Monticello

    The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built

    by Marc Leepson ...
    The complete history of Thomas Jefferson's iconic American home, Monticello, and how it was not only saved after Jefferson's death, but ultimately made into a National Historic Landmark.When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826, he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • American Auto Trail-North Carolina's U.S. Highway 70

    by Lyn Wilkerson ...
    This edition in the American Auto Trails series explores the route of U.S. 70 across North Carolina, from the coastal town of Atlantic to the Smoky Mountains on the Tennessee State Line. U.S. 70 travels through the heart of the state, connecting the cities of Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Asheville. Driving maps and GPS Coordinates are provided for all listed historic sites. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Susanna Moodie

    by Anne Cimon ...
    Series Book 19 - Quest Biography
    Susanna Moodie was already a published author when she emigrated from England to Upper Canada with her husband and baby in 1832. The Moodies were seeking financial security and a better life in the colony, but they found themselves struggling to make a living on a bush farm. Despite her primitive life in the backwoods and the demands of caring for her children, Susanna continued to write and ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • George Washington's 1791 Southern Tour

    by Warren L. Bingham ...
    This account of the first president's trip to unite a young America "follows Washington's travels day-by-day with detailed information about each stop" ( Daily Herald).Newly elected president George Washington set out to visit the new nation aware that he was the singular unifying figure in America. The journey's finale was the Southern Tour, begun in March 1791. The long and arduous trek from the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood and War at My Doorstep

    by Brenda Chambers McKean ...
    "Between these pages the reader will learn that North Carolina citizens did not idly standby as their soldiers marched off to war. The women worked themselves into “patrioticexhaustion” through Aid Societies. Civilians with different means of support from thelower class to the plantation mistress wrote the governor complaining of hoarding,speculation, the tithe, bushwhackers, unionism, ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Volume II

    by Mary Carol Miller ...
    As preservationist Mary Carol Miller talked with Mississippians about her books on lost mansions and landmarks, enthusiasts brought her more stories of great architecture ravaged by time. The twenty-seven houses included in her new book are among the most memorable of Mississippi's vanished antebellum and Victorian mansions. The list ranges from the oldest house in the Natchez region, lost in a ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Patriots, Pirates, and Pineys: Sixty Who Shaped New Jersey

    by Robert A. Peterson ...
    Southern New Jersey is a region full of rich heritage, and yet it is one of the best kept historical secrets of our nation. Many famous people have lived in Southern New Jersey, and numerous world-renowned businesses were started in this area as well. This collection of biographies gives the reader a sense of history about the area through the stories of the people who resided there, with the ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited

    by Jim Bryan ...
    Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited is based on an earlier work and is a historical account of the settlement and development of Allendale County, SC from the days of early Spanish explorers through 1970.It is based on the work of my Great Aunt, Alexania Easterling Lawton and Mrs. Minnie Reeves Wilson which was published in 1970. This work attempts to correct some of the mistakes in the original ... Read more

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