The Magnolia Ascendancy
ACT I: THE WEIGHT Autumn, 1855. Archie Beauregard stood on the porch of Beauregard Manor and watched the last of the cotton being loaded onto a flatboat. Twelve bales. That was all that remained of what had once been eight hundred. The debt ledger, spread across the dining table like a wound, showed three thousand dollars owed to creditors in New Orleans and Mobile. Three thousand dollars for a...
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