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The son of a white man and Cherokee slave, Joseph Willis, gains his freedom and swims the mighty Mississippi on a mule. Driven by three winds: * a wind of freedom driving him from North Carolina* a mighty rushing wind compelling him across the Mississippi River into the Louisiana Territory *a wind of war fueled by slavery Antebellum Louisiana. Rooted in a time of tradition and chivalry, Joseph discovers a land of innocence lost