The House of Tangled Threads

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ACT I: THE HANDS The Hadley plantation had once covered three thousand acres of Mississippi delta. It had produced four hundred bales of cotton in its best year, 1858. It had employed sixty-seven slaves, according to the census of 1860. It had owned a house with twelve rooms and a wraparound porch and a garden where magnolias grew wild and untamed. In 1935, the plantation produced nothing. The...

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