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Title: A FAILURE
Review: I have been a Jakes fan since his 1976 series, which were excellent historical novels, and I live in the Charleston area and have studied the history of the city. This book, however, is a ponderous failure. The depiction of an amazon woman, large and masculine, who has sex with two black men during the civil war, who teaches black children to write and read in the open, who escapes death many times because she is so bold, is a fiction that belongs in the trash not on your bookshelf. Not historical, not to his usual writing. He must now be under the influence of the women's movement to depict a Charleston woman of the Civil War in this manner. A major disappointment - do NOT spend your money here.
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