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Mexico, 1683. When Concepción Benavidez flees her indenture from the convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico City and sets out to join a band of refugee slaves along with her friend Aléndula, the two are captured by buccaneers in Vera Cruz led by the famed Laurens-Cornille de Graaf, who is running a... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Concepcion Benavidez (Thankful Seagraves): The main character of the story. A mestiza born in New Spain and transported as a slave to New England. She is given the English name of Thankful Seagraves upon being sold to the Greenwood family near Boston.
- Juana Jeronima (aka Hanna Greenwood): The child of Thankful Seagraves. Her father is a pirate captain. She is raised in the Puritan world and is raised to hate her foreign mother.
- Rebecca Greenwood: The wife of Nathaniel Greenwood. She had one son, Caleb, but could not bare any other children. She covets Thankful Seagraves's daughter.
- Nathaniel Greenwood: A businessman with many enemies. He purchases Thankful Seagraves from a pirate ship and puts her in charge of maintaining his eldery father-in-law's small cottage and chicken farm.
- Caleb Greenwood: Nathaniel and Rebecca Greenwood's son.
- Tobias Webb: Father of Rebecca Greenwood. He hates Rebecca's husband, Nathaniel. He is a grumpy old man who needs much care.
- Tituba Indian: A slave from Barbados who befriends Thankful Seagraves and is accused during the Salem Witch Trials.
- Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz: The headmistress of the convent Concepcion was indentured to.
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First Sentence edit
Laaaand fall!
Table of Contents edit
PROLOGUE: The Pledge 1
BOOK I: The Neptune 7
BOOK II: Thankful Seagraves 37
BOOK III: Mistress Tobias Webb 161
BOOK IV: Days of Doom 235
BOOK V: Riddle Wolf 309
EPILOGUE: The Pyre 355
AUTHOR'S POSTSCRIPT 371
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- amanuensis: one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: St Martins Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0312366418
Page Count: 384
Publisher: St Martins Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 0312366418
Page Count: 384
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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