Birdsong's Law

A Novella of 1619 Virginia

von Thomas S Inman

150 Seiten, Hardcover

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The Virginia Colony, 1619 - 1635***A forged note. A poisoned cup. A legal system inventing race as guilt.Njila Mwana a Hosi has done something extraordinary in early Virginia. He has survived captivity and the middle passage. Then he won his freedom, acquired land, and built a home with Beth, the English woman he loves.Then Beth is poisoned.A forged note points toward Njila. Rumor becomes evidence. Suspicion becomes law.To clear his name, Njila must discover who wanted Beth dead. But Virginia itself is changing around him. Old loyalties fracture. Neighbors choose sides. And a colony still deciding what race will mean discovers how useful race can be when deciding who is guilty.Set against the tobacco fields and towering pines of seventeenth-century Virginia, Birdsong's Law is a historical mystery about-....... freedom, land, and love-and the moment prejudice begins shaping the meaning of each.Njila's story is fictional. The forces shaping him are not.Birdsong's Law - to explore the human cost of that moment - the courage required to stay human when the law is learning how to erase you.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte Historische kulturübergreifende oder interkulturelle Interaktionen / Begegnungen
• ISBN: 9798240850684
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Ts Inman