The American Queen: A Novel Based on the True Story of Appalachia’s Kingdom of the Happy Land

In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s been enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one hate. Hate for the man who sold…

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