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The healer's daughter / Charlotte Hinger.

Hinger, Charlotte, 1940- (author.).

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"Bethany Herbert, daughter of a legendary healer, leaves the South for the new black community of Nicodemus, Kansas. Despite the hardships, the community comes to love the prairie. Bethany's mother, Queen Bess, comes to Nicodemus, as does the handsome lawyer Jed Talbot, who galvanizes the settlers. Bethany resists the call of her heart because Queen Bess warns her the best healers are chaste and single. When the Herbert women's medical procedures are undermined, Bethany nearly succumbs to Queen Bess's call for total segregation from the whites Bess hates. Sinister forces come into play through white politicians seeking the black vote, and sabotage by a woman within Nicodemus who yearns for the old color hierarchy. The people of Nicodemus fight back and ultimately triumph"--Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781432849696
  • ISBN: 1432849697
  • Physical Description: 617 pages ; 23cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Large Print Press, 2020.

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Subject: African Americans > Kansas > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Kansas > Fiction.
United States > Race relations > Fiction.
Genre: Romance fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2019 March #1

    Hinger, a Western Kansas historian ("Lottie Albright" mysteries; Come Spring), here fictionalizes the town of Nicodemus, the first all-black settlement in Kansas. It seems a natural follow-up to her meticulously researched nonfiction work, Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas. Bethany Herbert—young, newly freed, and very skilled at healing—joins a group of other freed slaves who have been promised a veritable paradise in Kansas. There is, of course, no paradise awaiting them, but through their own hard work, they wrestle a community out of the harsh, unforgiving prairie. In this starkly realistic story, the townspeople struggle against outside threats and internal conflict to survive, giving new voice to those whose history the author recounted in her earlier work. VERDICT Somewhat reminiscent of Jane Kirkpatrick's A Light in the Wilderness, this is far grittier. Readers who appreciate historical accuracy in their fiction will find this a powerful read. The impressive degree of realism and Hinger's skillful weaving of personalities and story lines make it a real page-turner.—Pamela O'Sullivan, Coll. at Brockport Lib., SUNY

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