In the Fire of Spring - Softcover

In the sequel to The Wings of the Morning, abolitionist and schoolmistress Georgiana Ross and sea captain Sinjin Grimes are caught up in a battle over a school for slaves in a New England village. Reprint.

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The Civil War is still twenty years away when Rose, an escaped mulatto slave girl, arrives in the town of Pequot Landing. Soon after, a school for "colored misses" is established. This fuels a firestorm between the abolitionist Talcott family and the wealthy Grimes family, owners of mills that depend on slave-picked cotton. Into the blaze steps schoolmistress Georgiana Ross and rakehell sea captain Sinjin Grimes. Now all these players find themselves caught up in the dramatic sweep of history . . .