Southern Ways
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The story of two very different people whose destinies intertwine, as told by Marjorie Thompson, an elderly slave woman of the Moore Plantation. The story begins in 1845 when two children, Elizabeth "Beth" Moore and Johnathan "Nathan" Dickens, are born on the same day. One comes from a rich, plantation-owning family, while the other is born into a life of servitude. What will happen when the prejudice of the old southern ways is overlooked?
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