About this book
The story of emancipated slave Elizabeth Mayfield traces her rise as the matriarch of a family of musically gifted Southern women who overcome brutal obstacles while witnessing key moments in American history.
- African American families
- Epic literature
- Fiction
- New York Times reviewed
- African americans, fiction
- Fiction, sagas
- Fiction, historical
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