This novel, based on a real person living near the south Georgia Sea Islands, begins in 1837 and ends after the Civil War. As a child slave, Neptune Small was a helpmate and companion to the plantation family's oldest son, Henry Lord Page King. Just five months apart in age, they were inseparable throughout the boys' youth. As he comes of age, Neptune marries and begins a family. He accompanies Lordy when he enlists during the Civil War, and later brings his body home. At war's end, Neptune becomes a free man but chooses to remain with the King family. The story builds steadily until the beginning of the Civil War after which it shows how the war changed the plantation culture in the South.
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