In the late 1880s, newlyweds Jasper and Beatrice Gordon leave rural South Georgia to start a life in the capital of the New South, Atlanta. They start businesses that provide them with solid footing in the emerging black middle class. The Gordons reach back into their home community and bring a young, trouble-bound relative into their family as a caregiver for their young children. Though enmeshed with the family, Nellie never grows beyond the language and attitude of rural Georgia. The Gordons' two children forge lives as divergent as their parents, as one crosses the color line to marry and the other a cultural one to choose a mate.
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