The Magnolia Plantation

Life in Nineteenth-Century Mississippi

In 1835, Eris, the 19 yo daughter of a Charleston judge, finds herself pregnant. The judge marries her off to a naïve man determined to create a cotton plantation in Mississippi’s wilderness. After 2 years of futile struggle, she abandons her husband to marry a wealthy neighboring landowner and has a son with him. The two sons grow up to fight each other in the Civil War, as the issues of slavery, abandonment, and love fling the two families into conflict and redemption.