The Sun Plantation
ACT I The delta had been flooded in the spring of 1891, and James Whitfield had been twelve years old and standing on the porch of the plantation house, watching the water rise, when he first understood that his family's wealth was built on drowning. The water came slowly, then all at once. The Whitfields had diverted the river—officially for irrigation, officially for the steam engines that...
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