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The Mexican Revolution was a tumultuous struggle for social and political reform that ousted an autocrat and paved the way for a new national constitution. The conflict, however, came late to Yucatan, where a network of elite families with largely European roots held the reins of government. This privileged group reaped spectacular wealth from haciendas, cash-crop plantations tended by debt-ridden servants of Maya descent. When a revolutionary army from central Mexico finally gained a foothold in Yucatan in 1915, the local custom of agrarian servitude met its demise.

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Tennessee has seceded from the Union. In the northeastern counties of the state, more than half of the citizens are still loyal to the North. Daniel Ellis, a poor wagon repairer, finds himself caught between defending his family and his freedom and giving into the violence that is erupting all over the country. As Union Tennessee families are hanged and imprisoned without trial, Ellis does his best to thwart the local Confederate authorities, lead refugees to the Northern lines, and keep his family alive as they desperately wait for a Federal invasion force. Ellis and the men that follow him...