TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burke,James Lee
TI  - Flags on the Bayou
SN  - 9781398715509 (hbk.) :
AV  - PS3552.U723 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Orion
KW  - Historical
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
KW  - thema
KW  - Historical mysteries
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Slavery & abolition of slavery
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Fiction
KW  - lcsh
N2  - In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The retreating Confederate army is being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed - and did - as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah
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