The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

An award-winning historian chronicles the remarkable life of Eunice Connolly, her poverty-stricken upbringing in New England, marriage to a Southern man who died fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War, return to New England, marriage to a black sea captain, and move to the West Indies, based on a collection of five hundred family letters. Reprint.