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Solved - American Plantation/Slavery

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08keels

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Hello, I am trying to find the titles and author of a series of fiction novels I read in the 1980's.

The books were set in the USA and were about slavery on a plantation.
They were all written from the perspective of the plantation owner/slave master. Unfortunately I cannot remeber any of the characters' names.

I read 3 novels from this series (although there may have been more) They were paperback & would all have been published before 1988. I think the author was male.

Please can anyone help identify the author & titles ?
 
Could they have been part of John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles or his North and South Trilogy? I have not read the latter, but the Kent Chronicles had three titles that took place during the Civil War, and were centered around plantation owners, I believe. Been awhile since I read those, but I anxiously waited for each installment when I was in high school and my early twenties.
 
Thanks

Hi Abecedarian,

Wow, I think you've nailed it ! I researched the Kent Family Chronicles today & I'm 99% sure that that the books were indeed from that series.

You have made me & my (history loving) 15 year son very happy. I'm off to Amazon to order the whole series ! I would never have found them without your help - Thank you so much :)
 
08keels said:
Hi Abecedarian,

Wow, I think you've nailed it ! I researched the Kent Family Chronicles today & I'm 99% sure that that the books were indeed from that series.

You have made me & my (history loving) 15 year son very happy. I'm off to Amazon to order the whole series ! I would never have found them without your help - Thank you so much :)
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Glad to help! While you're at it, you might investigate Jake's one and only children's book, Susannah of the Alamo. I used it as a read aloud with my kids and could never get through it without tearing up. I'd never thought about what it might have been like for the women and children who were holed up in the mission church, listening as their men were slaughtered. Incredible book.
 
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