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Burke, James Lee, 1936-

Flags on the bayou : a novel / - First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. - 310 pages cm

"In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah."--

ISBN: 9780802161697 0802161693

LCCN: 2023009525

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1861-1865

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Southern States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Novels.
Suspense fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

LC Class. No.: PS3552.U723 / F53 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54