Acknowledgments

    To acknowledge every source would require an extensive bibliography, and would need to include documentaries, films, and Internet sources. Particular thanks must go to Eugene D. Genovese, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger, Peter Kolchin, Kenneth M. Stampp, Ira Berlin, Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, James D. Russell, Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., The Virginia WPA, Paul Erickson, Anne Kamma, Ellen Levine, Kay Moore, Jason Goodwin, Iain Gately, Webb Garrison, Edwin C. Fishel, Joseph L. Harsh, John Michael Priest, Stephen W. Sears, Douglas S. Freeman, Shelby Foote, James McPherson, and Bruce Catton. These were my primary sources. Finally, to Patrick O'Brian, from whom I borrowed the occasional word that helped keep me in the nineteenth century.

    Grateful acknowledgment is made to my family at Hyperion, especially Ellen Archer for her contagious enthusiasm; and Leslie Wells, who made both novel and writer better.

    To Deborah Schneider, fierce and wonderful.

    To the long line of Fuller writers, including my father, John G. Fuller; and to my mother, Joyce V. Fuller.

    Liz Sayre is my patient supporter, co-conspirator, and true companion. This book would not exist without her. Our sons, Tom and Mark, were born shortly before the idea for this novel was hatched. As they have lived with it their entire lives, it truly belongs to them.