Title: Jacob's ladder
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.
Subjects: American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, Fiction, African Americans, History, Virginia, history, African americans, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Virginia
People: Gatewood family
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865