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Prologue to Book 1: IX

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Williams-Garcia, Rita. A Sitting in St. James. HarperCollins Publishers, 2021. Hardcover.

· The Prologue tells of land belonging to Native peoples until the French, Spanish, and illnesses took it from them.

· At the time Thomas Jefferson was president, a man named Bayard Guilbert fled the Haitian Revolution with his wife and left Saint-Domingue for a land grant of 1,200 acres.

· Although he was a yeoman farmer in France, his birthplace, he knows he will make a fortune as he did in Saint-Domingue.

· When he could not marry his love in France, the daughter of a vineyard owner, he had left and gone to Saint-Domingue where he gained property.

· When he returned to France, his love had married, had a daughter, and died.

· He decided at the age of 35 to marry her daughter who was...

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