{"product_id":"apalachee-paperback","title":"Apalachee - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Rockwood Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis powerful novel tells the story of Hinachuba Lucia, a Native American wise woman caught in the rapidly changing world of the early colonial South. With compelling drama and historical accuracy, \u003ci\u003eApalachee\u003c\/i\u003e portrays the decimation of the Indian mission culture of Spanish Florida by English Carolina during Queen Anne's war at the beginning of the eighteenth century and also portrays the little-known institution of Indian slavery in colonial America. The novel recounts the beginnings of the colony of South Carolina and the struggle between the colonists and the Indians, who were at first trading partners--bartering deerskins and Indian slaves for guns and cloth--and then enemies in the Yamasee War of 1715. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the novel opens, Spanish missionaries have settled in the Apalachee homeland on what is now the eastern Florida panhandle, ravaging the native population with disease and altering its culture with Christianity. Despite these changes, the Apalachees maintain an uneasy coexistence with the friars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverything changes when English soldiers and their Indian allies from the colony of Carolina invade Spanish Florida. After being driven from her Apalachee homeland by the English, Lucia is captured by Creek Indians and sold into slavery in Carolina, where she becomes a house slave at Fairmeadow, a turpentine plantation near Charles Town. Her beloved husband, Carlos, is left behind, free but helpless to get Lucia back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSwept by intricate and inexorable currents, Lucia's fate is interwoven with those of Juan de Villalva, a Spanish mission priest, and Isaac Bull, an Englishman in search of fortune in the New World. As the three lives unfold, the reader is drawn into a morally complex world where cultures meet and often clash. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth major and minor characters come alive in Hudson's hands, but none so memorably as the wise woman Lucia--beautiful, aristocratic, and strong. Informed by the author's extensive research, Apalachee is an ambitious, compelling novel that tells us as much about the ethnic and social diversity of the southern colonies as it does about the human heart.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOYCE ROCKWOOD HUDSON is the author of five works of fiction, including the award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eTo Spoil the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, and two works of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eLooking for De Soto: A Search Through the South for the Spaniard's Trail\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia) and \u003ci\u003eNatural Spirituality: Recovering the Wisdom Tradition in Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130419417223,"sku":"9780820339405","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a10e4e1724f0173d4e496acbdb24110a.webp?v=1732610651","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/apalachee-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}