Dead water - Barbara Hambly [137]
In the mid-1840s Davis entered politics and re-married, to a young lady named Varina Howell. When the Mexican War broke out in 1846, he accepted a commission as Colonel and went on to become a war hero, a Senator, and Secretary of War to President Franklin Pierce, a career that culminated in his five-year term as the only President of the Confederate States of America.
James Pemberton became the overseer at Brierfield in Davis's absence, a position he held until his death in 1850.
Davis is universally described as a fair and kind master to his slaves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BARBARA HAMBLY lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln, The Emancipator's Wife, which Bantam will publish in 2005.
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DEAD WATER
A Bantam Book / August 2004
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hambly, Barbara.
Dead water / Barbara Hambly.
p. cm.
1. January, Benjamin (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—Louisiana—New Orleans—Fiction. 3. Natchez-under-the-Hill (Natchez, Miss.)—Fiction. 4. Free African Americans—Fiction. 5. African American men—Fiction. 6. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction. 7. Embezzlement—Fiction. 8. Steamboats—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A4215D43 2004
813'.54—dc22
2004040766
Published simultaneously in Canada
eISBN: 978-0-553-90059-0
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