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Christmas in the Mississippi Plantations Foreclosure of a Boy
In the 1830s Mississippi river trade era, plantation gambler Arthur St Clair loses much at cards to a young Louisiana planter and contemplates selling his son Billy. His wife Seeks mercy, but the sale proceeds to Christmas Eve shock. A humane stranger arrives with the needed funds and the boy’s sale is thwarted, turning Christmas on the plantation into a tense but festive reversal.
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