On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Original title: On the occasion of my last afternoon
first published 1998 Bard, 1999 273 pages
Wheeler large print book series
Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate Lowell is at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up more and more aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery. Bookish and sensitive, young Emma Garnet sets herself against her bumptious, self-made father, Samuel P. Tate, at an early age. In the company of her mother and ador...
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