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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Burke, James Lee, 1936-     Subjects     Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877 -- Fiction.     Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.     Women slaves -- Fiction.     Plantation owners -- Fiction.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.     Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Burke, James Lee, 1936-       by title:      White doves at morni...       by call number:      FICTION BUR     Search the Web     Burke, James Lee, 1936-     Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877 -- Fiction.     Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.     Women slaves -- Fiction.     Plantation owners -- Fiction.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.     Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.       MARC Display

White doves at morning : a novel / James Lee Burke. by Burke, James Lee, 1936- Simon & Schuster, c2002. Call #: FICTION BUR Subjects Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877 -- Fiction.   Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.   Women slaves -- Fiction.   Plantation owners -- Fiction.   United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.   Louisiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. ISBN:  0743244710 Description:  305 p. ; 25 cm. Summary:  At the center of the novel are James Lee Burke's own ancestors, Robert Perry, who comes from a slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willie Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and decent. Despite their personal and political conflicts with the issues of the time, both men join the Confederate Army, choosing to face ordeal by fire, yet determined not to back down in their commitment to their moral beliefs, to their friends, and to the abolitionist woman with whom both have become infatuated. One of the most compelling characters in the story, and the catalyst for much of its drama, is Flower Jamison, a beautiful young black slave befriended, at great risk to himself, by Willie and owned by -- and fathered by, although he will not admit it -- Ira Jamison. Owner of Angola Plantation, Ira Jamison is a true son of the Old South and also a ruthless businessman, who, after the war, returns to the plantation and re-energizes it by transforming it into a penal colony, which houses prisoners he rents out as laborers to replace the slaves who have been emancipated. Against all local law and customs, Flower learns from Willie to read and write, and receives the help and protection of Abigail Dowling, a Massachusetts abolitionist who had come south several years prior to help fight yellow fever and never left, and who has attracted the eye of both Willie and Robert Perry. These love affairs are not only fraught with danger, but compromised by the great and grim events of the Civil War and its aftermath. Genre:  Black fiction. Historical fiction. Love stories. War fiction Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION BUR Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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