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and she does seem to wield a certain power

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born out of awe

But when a farmer is found dead

and his family’s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go

Island Queen searchfilter_Humor and she does seem toA remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedomand that of her sister and her motherfrom her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur,