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    Mail Order Bride: Amos & Theodosia’s Story
    Mail Order Bride: Amos & Theodosia’s Story
    Mail Order Bride: Amos & Theodosia’s Story
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    Mail Order Bride: Amos & Theodosia’s Story

    By Joyce Melbourne

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    When a black man in the small town of Exodus, Kansas, writes away for a mail order bride, little did he know that a petite and very white widow of a British soldier would arrive on the train platform in the neighboring town of Generosity. He had a foreshadowing of what might happen when everyone in town found out, but no idea about how it would all end up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSusan Hart
    Release dateSep 2, 2015
    ISBN9781310306945
    Mail Order Bride: Amos & Theodosia’s Story
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    Joyce Melbourne

    Joyce Melbourne lives in Southern California with her husband, numerous animals, and an unkempt garden, which she loves. She's been interested in romance and all of its sub genres for many years.

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      Mail Order Bride - Joyce Melbourne

      Mail Order Bride (Amos & Theodosia’s Story)

      By

      Joyce Melbourne

      Copyright 2015 Classic Western Romances Presents

      Synopsis: When a black man in the small town of Exodus, Kansas, writes away for a mail order bride, little did he know that a petite and very white widow of a British soldier would arrive on the train platform in the neighboring town of Generosity. He had a foreshadowing of what might happen when everyone in town found out, but no idea about how it would all end up.

      Amos Freeman met his bride-to-be at the nearest train station to Exodus, Kansas in the town of Generosity. Generosity, Kansas had been named for a farmer who was known to give anyone access to his well. One day a cowboy had rode up, took a drink from the gourd hanging next to it and told the farmer: That was a great generosity on your part! The name stuck and when the railroad came through in 1880, they put a small station at the town.

      Amos was there with his minister, Pastor Franklin Connor of the First Baptist Church of Exodus. He could never understand why the church was named the First as there were no other Baptist churches in town. As a matter of fact, there were no churches of any other denomination in Exodus.

      It was a small town.

      Finding a wife wasn’t easy in Kansas. Amos was one of the many former slaves from the confederacy who’d made the trip west after the emancipation. He’d spent the first 20 years of his life as a bondsman to a plantation owner in South Carolina, chopping cotton. It wasn’t a brutal life if you kept your mouth shut and did as told. You might do okay if you kept in mind what your status was and who had the power of life and death.

      Plenty of the field hands were Amos had worked stayed on at the end of the war, knowing no other life. Amos, on the other hand didn’t trust his former owners one bit. He’d seen Marse Williams slipping around the slave quarters at night and his mother ordered up to the big house when the Missy was out on a visit. The first time he’s asked why momma had to leave his father had slapped him up side of the head. He never asked again.

      And now here he was, the only successful black rancher in the county. It had been a long trip and to the new state. He’d served in the Union Army before heading to Kansas. The prairie was an unforgiving land with hordes of grasshoppers liable to descend out of the sky at any moment and devour your crops. Amos had been lucky. The land he’s bought near Exodus had plenty of wells and good pasture. He didn’t have that many head of cattle, but he was able to hire the occasional cowboy and cattle herd to help him as needed.

      But lately he’d realized he couldn’t do the job himself. He needed something else on his lands: A wife.

      Women were far too few in his part of the state. Eligible women of color far fewer. Even a gentleman rancher, such as he considered himself, had a difficult time finding a helpmate. Amos was an active member of his church and had an eye on a few of the younger daughters among the congregation. But their families had failed to farm the land they bought and were forced to move further west. Amos would sigh every time another one left and help them pack up. With the dwindling population in Exodus, there might

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