The Price of Cotton Author:William Sanford With a story that spans oceans and continents, The Price of Cotton tells of the life and times of its central character, Lakaetu, a beautiful woman of Seychelle descent who becomes a wife, a mother, and an international business woman. Set in the 1800s, the novel is a family saga of three generations whose lives and commercial exploits take... more » them from their home in England to America and the Carribean, as they engage in the transcontinental cotton trade. Around them, historic events unfold as America becomes a nation divided over differing ways of life. As the looming Civil War in the States becomes more and more unavoidable, Lakaetu and her family struggle through hardship and danger as they realize the importance, and the crisis, of the international price of cotton. Adventures abound, fortunes are made, innovations come to light, and lives are affected forever.« less