num_pages: 264
description: Abbeville Farewell is a story about love and faith and doing the right thing in the face of lawlessness, slavery, and general licentiousness. It tells the story of a tradesman/farmer family's move from Abbeville, SC in the early 1800's and follows them in their quest for a permanent home. They become some of the first inhabitants of what becomes Atlanta, then find their fortunes caught up in the remnants of a struggle from before their own time. It's a saga about family and moral conflicts in pre-Civil War Atlanta and North Georgia, but its reach is across the South and across the moral compass of the nation's conscience. It's about men and women of faith who just try to keep it in the middle of the road, but who are menaced by the rowdiness, greed and bawdiness of the times. Here's what fellow writers have said about Abbeville "A story true to the way the South was-by a tough and meticulous writer. In Abbeville Farewell, Williamson has done her job of researching and feeling out the truth of early Georgia and its people." -Janice Daugharty, author of Whistle, Earl in the Yellow Shirt, and Like a Sister. "With rich description that evokes the landscape and people of the antebellum South, Estelle Ford-Williamson has written a novel that turns a fresh eye on the conflict over slavery....It is a story that would excite any witness to true moral struggle."-Tony Grooms, author, Trouble No More and Bombingham.
language: English
title: Abbeville Farewell: A Novel of Early Atlanta and North Georgia
titlecomplete: Abbeville Farewell: A Novel of Early Atlanta and North Georgia
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Other Voices Pr