"Roger Elwood's triumphant saga of one family's thrilling passage through the turbulent antebellum years on their South Carolina plantation, where gentility and violence live together and bigotry and ignorance walk together hand-in- hand. Only those with the strongest character and firmest beliefs can hold fast to what is right." -- back blurb
This Civil War story is told through the eyes of Charity Littlepage, a woman of strong character and firm belief. In the debate over slavery, she and her family, hold fast to their Christian beliefs, and suffer for it. Their Christian convictions are tested almost to the breaking point, first by their neighbours and then by their enemies.
If you're interested in the American Civil War, this is a great book to read, as it will give you an historical view of the war and perhaps an insight on the issue of slavery and power.
In the aftermath of the war, a group of grieving Southern ladies form the Plantation Letters Society, with the purpose of collecting letters written during the war, some from home, some from the battlefield. It is through this group that Charity comes to tell her story. Ashes of Paradise, is the first in a trilogy called the Plantation Letters and is available in our church library.
