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Trouble the water : a novel, Jacqueline Friedland, (electronic resource)

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Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby's parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her. To her relief, he relegates her care to a governess, leaving her to settle into his enormous estate with little interference. But just as she begins to grow comfortable in her new life, she overhears her benefactor planning the escape of a local slave--and suddenly, everything she thought she knew about Douglas Elling is turned on its head. Abby's attempts to learn more about Douglas and his involvement in abolition initiate a circuitous dance of secrets and trust. As Abby and Douglas each attempt to manage their complicated interior lives, readers can't help but hope that their meandering will lead them straight to each other. Set against the vivid backdrop of Charleston twenty years before the Civil War, Trouble the Water is a captivating tale replete with authentic details about Charleston's aristocratic planter class, American slavery, and the Underground Railroad
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource.
Isbn
9781943006557
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Instance
Label
Trouble the water : a novel
Title
Trouble the water
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Jacqueline Friedland
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby's parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her. To her relief, he relegates her care to a governess, leaving her to settle into his enormous estate with little interference. But just as she begins to grow comfortable in her new life, she overhears her benefactor planning the escape of a local slave--and suddenly, everything she thought she knew about Douglas Elling is turned on its head. Abby's attempts to learn more about Douglas and his involvement in abolition initiate a circuitous dance of secrets and trust. As Abby and Douglas each attempt to manage their complicated interior lives, readers can't help but hope that their meandering will lead them straight to each other. Set against the vivid backdrop of Charleston twenty years before the Civil War, Trouble the Water is a captivating tale replete with authentic details about Charleston's aristocratic planter class, American slavery, and the Underground Railroad
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Friedland, Jacqueline
Dewey number
813.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3606.R54
Literary form
fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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  • Man-woman relationships
  • Widowers
  • Abolitionists
  • British
  • Abolitionists
  • British
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Widowers
  • Charleston (S.C.)
  • South Carolina
  • United States
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Trouble the water : a novel, Jacqueline Friedland, (electronic resource)
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781943006557
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unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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dcf9d412-f25a-48de-83c3-7e114df1c8af
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Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1033840144
Label
Trouble the water : a novel, Jacqueline Friedland, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource.
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781943006557
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
dcf9d412-f25a-48de-83c3-7e114df1c8af
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1033840144

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