{"product_id":"9781538032114","title":"MOONROY","description":"South Carolina was a colony full of Patriots for the majority were descended not from the English but from the French, the Irish, the Scottish, and the Jewish. It also had a large African population, in itself varied, from fieldhands newly arrived who spoke neither English nor French, those who were third and fourth generation and spoke both, and some who had been freed and ran their own business. South Carolina as a colony ran off five Royal Governors and in 1764 seized the shipment of stamp paper and sent it back to England. Formal hostilities began June 28, 1776, when British warships attacked Charles Town, the first of three attacks between 1776 and 1780.\u003cbr\u003e Moonroy, founded by Peter Monclair's father, a French Huguenot and one-time pirate. was not one of the grand river plantations of South Carolina, but it was a prosperous one. Peter was an early signer under Gadsden's Liberty Tree and, like many of his friends, came to realize that reason and law would not change England's policies. But a plantation was a biracial society, so a story about Moonroy is not just about the Monclairs and their four children, but also about Patience and her son, both born in Barbados, and about Jeremy, a Gambia man and the woman of the happy, heart-shaped Fulani face who caught his eye, and tall Caesar who caught many a woman's eye, and sullen Hambro whose father had been a lion hunter and Old Turner who had sailed the seas with the old pirate himself, and many others, for the war touched everyone's life. And because the war was about freedom, the issue of freeing the slaves was a part of the discussion.","brand":"NOOK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045814223088,"sku":"9781538032114","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781538032114_p0.jpg?v=1763744013","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781538032114","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}