Know Nothing

Set in the decades preceding the Civil War, Know Nothing  tells the tragic tale of Peregrine Catlett and his second son, Johnny. The year 1837 brings a host of perils to their verdant West Virginia valley. Amid financial panic, debate over the abolition of slavery, and mounting tension between North and South, Peregrine considers freeing his slaves but believes that, with his children scattered, his only hope of retaining his plantation rests on the use of slave labor. Johnny returns to this father's farm but stays only until the outbreak of hostilities. He soon loses sight of his reasons for joining the Confederate forces and ends up fighting both family and friends with disastrous results.               334 pages.Know Nothing is the third volume of Mary Lee Settle's The Beulah Quintet - a generational saga that traces 300 years about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom.

 
Know Nothing
 
Know Nothing
Set in the decades preceding the Civil War, Know Nothing  tells the tragic tale of Peregrine Catlett and his second son, Johnny. The year 1837 brings a host of perils to their verdant West Virginia valley. Amid financial panic, debate over the abolition of slavery, and mounting tension between North and South, Peregrine considers freeing his slaves but believes that, with his children scattered, his only hope of retaining his plantation rests on the use of slave labor. Johnny returns to this father's farm but stays only until the outbreak of hostilities. He soon loses sight of his reasons for joining the Confederate forces and ends up fighting both family and friends with disastrous results.               334 pages.Know Nothing is the third volume of Mary Lee Settle's The Beulah Quintet - a generational saga that traces 300 years about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom.
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