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Authors: Lalita Tademy

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tademy, Lalita.

Citizens creek / Lalita Tademy.—First Atria Books hardcover edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Slaves—Alabama—Fiction. 2. African-American men—Alabama—Fiction.

3. Creek Indians—Alabama—History—Fiction. 4. Intercultural communication—Alabama—History—Fiction.
I. Title.

PS3570.A248C58 2014

813'.54—dc23 2013041525

ISBN 978-1-4767-5303-4

ISBN 978-1-4767-5305-8 (ebook)

Contents

Dedication

Epigraph

Part I: Tom - Alabama, 1822

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Florida, 1837

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Indian Territory, 1842

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Ten Years Later, 1852

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Part II: Rose, 1863

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Part III: Rose, 1880

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Afterword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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