{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "As Ann McMillan's Civil Blood opens, some Richmonders pour into the streets in celebration of a Union warship's defeat, while others--slaves, free blacks, Union sympathizers--mourn in secret. Unknown to all of them, another disaster threatens, quieter but more effective than warships: smallpox, the most contagious plague the world has ever known. The detective team of Narcissa Powers, a white widow turned Confederate nurse, and Judah Daniel, a free black herbalist, encounters a frightening possibility: the victims are being intentionally infected by tainted money flowing through Richmond's network of speculators and profiteers."}, "title": "Civil Blood", "covers": [402843], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Josiah Harrald wondered if he might already be dead."}, "subject_places": ["Richmond (Va.)"], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "Josiah Harrald wondered if he might already be dead."}], "first_publish_date": "2001", "key": "/works/OL30591W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL27579A"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "subjects": ["Race relations", "Richmond (Va.) Civil War, 1861-1865", "Fiction", "African American women healers", "Narcissa Powers (Fictitious character)", "Female friendship", "Judah Daniel (Fictitious character)", "History", "Large type books", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction, historical, general", "United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction", "African americans, fiction", "Virginia, fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_times": ["Civil War, 1861-1865"], "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-13T11:28:29.899635"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-10-08T05:20:28.577854"}}