Band of Angels
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black. Living in Kentucky…
Band of Angels
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black. Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside-down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of a slave, Amantha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by Louisiana plantation owner Hamish Bond, and over time she grows to love him, until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere. —garykmcd In Kentucky in the antebellum of the Civil War, Amantha Starr is the pride and joy of her father, plantation owner Aaron Starr, who treats his slaves with dignity. When he dies, Amantha learns that he mother was Black and she is included as a slave to be sold to pay his father's debts. She is sent to an auction in New Orleans and bought by wealthy Hamish Bond by a fortune. He brings her home and treats her as if she were a guest. Amantha meets slaves Rau-Ru, who is treated like a son, and Michele, who is Hamish's mistress and in love with him. Soon they fall in love with each other, but when Hamish discloses a dreadful secret from his past, their relationship ends. Meanwhile the Civil War breaks out and Hamish becomes a wanted man while Rau-Ru joins the Union Army. Will the love of Amantha and Hamish be doomed by the war? —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Centers on the life of Southern belle Amantha Starr - Manty - in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on her romantic life and her views on and association to slavery. The privileged daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner, she has a liberal view of slavery learned from her father in he never having beat or sold a slave, although he does keep them, and she being friends with many of the plantation's slaves. Manty's life changes following her father's passing, she forced to move to New Orleans where she, against her will, becomes associated with wealthy Hamish Bond, who, like her father, has a liberal view of keeping slaves, and who he does not consider "property" in they largely free to come and go within the confines of slave ownership. Of his slaves, Michele is in love with him, while Rau-Ru, who Hamish has provided access to education and other privileges, secretly hates him in he feeling this passive ownership worse than knowing with other slave owners their place. In his New Orleans life, Hamish is trying to run from his past. As Manty's view of Hamish softens over time, things further change with the onset of the Civil War and the Union forces moving into the south which not only separates them but places his life in jeopardy. While many men have shown her romantic interest and/or love over her adult life, Manty, in this situation, comes to understand where her heart lies. Everything is affected by what she and much of the world learned about her following her father's passing: that is she not white, but biracial, her mother one of her father's slaves. —Huggo
Band of Angels
Adventure,Drama,Western
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Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black. Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools.
When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside-down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of a slave, Amantha is also to be sold as property.
She is bought by Louisiana plantation owner Hamish Bond, and over time she grows to love him, until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere. —garykmcd In Kentucky in the antebellum of the Civil War, Amantha Starr is the pride and joy of her father, plantation owner Aaron Starr, who treats his slaves with dignity.
When he dies, Amantha learns that he mother was Black and she is included as a slave to be sold to pay his father's debts. She is sent to an auction in New Orleans and bought by wealthy Hamish Bond by a fortune. He brings her home and treats her as if she were a guest.
Amantha meets slaves Rau-Ru, who is treated like a son, and Michele, who is Hamish's mistress and in love with him. Soon they fall in love with each other, but when Hamish discloses a dreadful secret from his past, their relationship ends. Meanwhile the Civil War breaks out and Hamish becomes a wanted man while Rau-Ru joins the Union Army.
Will the love of Amantha and Hamish be doomed by the war? —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Centers on the life of Southern belle Amantha Starr - Manty - in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on her romantic life and her views on and association to slavery. The privileged daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner, she has a liberal view of slavery learned from her father in he never having beat or sold a slave, although he does keep them, and she being friends with many of the plantation's slaves. Manty's life changes following her father's passing, she forced to move to New Orleans where she, against her will, becomes associated with wealthy Hamish Bond, who, like her father, has a liberal view of keeping slaves, and who he does not consider "property" in they largely free to come and go within the confines of slave ownership.
Of his slaves, Michele is in love with him, while Rau-Ru, who Hamish has provided access to education and other privileges, secretly hates him in he feeling this passive ownership worse than knowing with other slave owners their place. In his New Orleans life, Hamish is trying to run from his past. As Manty's view of Hamish softens over time, things further change with the onset of the Civil War and the Union forces moving into the south which not only separates them but places his life in jeopardy.
While many men have shown her romantic interest and/or love over her adult life, Manty, in this situation, comes to understand where her heart lies. Everything is affected by what she and much of the world learned about her following her father's passing: that is she not white, but biracial, her mother one of her father's slaves. —Huggo.