The Sea Captain's Wife

From five hundred family letters, award-winning historian Martha Hodes re-creates the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman - Eunice Connolly's family divided over the American Civil War and she later married across the colour line. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of Am [...]
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From five hundred family letters, award-winning historian Martha Hodes re-creates the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman - Eunice Connolly's family divided over the American Civil War and she later married across the colour line. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history: opportunity and racism, slavery and war, equality and freedom.