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In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter. Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the richest woman in Union County, North... read more
First Sentence
For two hundred years, the gentle red-earth hills and the dusty-brown draws and bottoms in the far western corner of Union County, where the border with South Carolina runs northwest on some surveyor's plot and the Mecklenburg County line angles northeast along Sixmile Creek, yielded some of the best cotton in the county.
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- Gene Stowe (Author)
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