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Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
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We all miss opportunities and make youthful mistakes. And sometimes, we wonder how our lives would change if we could relive our youth. Fannie took that chance. She was full of hope and sure that leaving Georgia for Washington, DC, would change her life. It is fifteen years after the end of the Civil War, and Fannie, a forty-one-year-old spinster lives in a small town in Georgia, where she works as a seamstress. One day, her elderly friend, Sarah, gives her a beautiful gold pendant watch. She tells Fannie that the watch has magical properties that will make her younger. Fannie is reluctant to take the watch but humors her friend. Then something terrible happens, and Fannie is forced to use t...
A hilarious and charming story about a quirky single mom in San Francisco who tiptoes through the minefields of the Mommy Wars and manages to find friendship and love.
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The earliest known ancestor of the Whitney family in America was Henry Whitney (1620-1672) who was born in England and immigrated to America in about 1649. One of his children was John Whitney (1644?-1720) who married Elizabeth Smith and was the father of eleven children. Their many descendants live throughout the United States.