Jacob's ladder
Subtitle: a story of Virginia during the war
By: Donald McCaig
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780393337105
Subjects: American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658; Fiction; African Americans; History
Description: A novel of the Civil War in which a young Southerner impregnates a black slave. The family quickly sells her, a white cotton trader marries and passes her off as white. But the girl was already married and her black husband runs away to join the Northern army in a bid to reclaim her.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: New York : W.W. Norton, ℗♭1998.