Lost Souls Recovered
Published on 18. October 2022
279 pages
978-1-61153-475-7 (ISBN)
Description
One man''s journey toward a better life.
When the wife of a plantation owner dies on a fateful night in 1887, John Billingsly makes the gut-wrenching decision to leave his mother and everything he knows to flee their slave cabin in Richmond, Virginia. Instructed by his mother to find a cousin in Mt. Hope, Alabama, John wends his way south in hope of a better life.
With the plantation owner shadowing him every step of the way, his journey is perilous. One misstep could cost him his freedom- and his life.
Inspired by a true story, Lost Souls Recovered is a mesmerizing historical family saga of loss and gain, survival and self-reinvention, and one family''s fight for freedom in the midst of the post-Civil War American South.,
When the wife of a plantation owner dies on a fateful night in 1887, John Billingsly makes the gut-wrenching decision to leave his mother and everything he knows to flee their slave cabin in Richmond, Virginia. Instructed by his mother to find a cousin in Mt. Hope, Alabama, John wends his way south in hope of a better life.
With the plantation owner shadowing him every step of the way, his journey is perilous. One misstep could cost him his freedom- and his life.
Inspired by a true story, Lost Souls Recovered is a mesmerizing historical family saga of loss and gain, survival and self-reinvention, and one family''s fight for freedom in the midst of the post-Civil War American South.,
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- 1 - Spring, 1887
- 2 - Spring, 1887
- 3 - Spring, 1887
- 4 - Spring, 1887
- 5 - Spring, 1887
- 6 - Spring, 1887
- 7 - Spring, 1887
- 8 - Spring, 1887
- 9 - Spring, 1887
- 10 - Spring, 1887
- 11 - Spring, 1887
- 12 - Summer, 1887
- 13 - Summer, 1887
- 14 - Summer, 1887
- 15 - Summer, 1887
- 16 - Fall, 1887
- 17 - Fall, 1887
- 18 - December, 1887
- 19 - December, 1888
- 20 - Summer, 1890
- 21 - Summer, 1890
- 22 - Summer, 1890
- 23 - Summer, 1893
- 24 - Summer, 1893
- 25 - Summer, 1893
- 26 - Summer, 1893
- 27 - Summer, 1893
- 28 - Summer, 1893
- 29 - Fall, 1893
- 30 - Winter 1894
- 31 - Late December 1899
- 32 - Late December, 1899
- 33 - Late December, 1899
- 34 - Late December, 1899
- 35 - Late December, 1899
- 36 - Late December, 1899
- 37 - Late December, 1899
- 38 - Late December, 1899
- 39 - December 31, 1899
- 40 - Spring, 1910
- 41 - Spring, 1910
- 42 - Spring, 1910
- 43 - June, 1917
- 44 - June 1917
- 45 - June, 1917
- 46 - Spring, 1920
- 47 - Spring, 1920
- 48 - Spring, 1920
- 49 - Spring, 1920
- 50 - Summer, 1922
- 51 - Fall, 1922
- 52 - Fall, 1923
- 53 - Fall, 1928
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
