Neptune's Honor: A Story of Loyalty and Love
This novel, based on a real person living near the south Georgia Sea Islands, begins in 1837 and ends after the Civil War. As a child slave, Neptune Small was a helpmate and companion to the plantation family's oldest son, Henry Lord Page King. Just five months apart in age, they were inseparable throughout the boys' youth. As he comes of age, Neptune marries and begins a family. He accompanies Lordy when he enlists during the Civil War, and later brings his body home. At war's end, Neptune becomes a free man but chooses to remain with the King family.
ISBN 9780968509753, SKU 1009753
Reading level - Young Adult
Book Title | Neptune's Honor: A Story of Loyalty and Love |
Publisher: | MISC SA |
Author | Pamela Bauer Mueller |
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This novel, based on a real person living near the south Georgia Sea Islands, begins in 1837 and ends after the Civil War. As a child slave, Neptune Small was a helpmate and companion to the plantation family's oldest son, Henry Lord Page King. Just five months apart in age, they were inseparable throughout the boys' youth. As he comes of age, Neptune marries and begins a family. He accompanies Lordy when he enlists during the Civil War, and later brings his body home. At war's end, Neptune becomes a free man but chooses to remain with the King family.
ISBN 9780968509753, SKU 1009753
Reading level - Young Adult