Margaret Hatcher HouseFrom one generation to the next, older family members have passed details of their history and information about their homes, land, and family circumstances down to guarantee they remain intact as factual. Author, Margaret Hatcher House, is the recipent of historical details that her grandparents and great-grandparents passed down to insure future generations would know their roots. Mrs. House has carefully woven those historical facts together with some fictitious literary liberties crafting an engaging work that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. A Measure of Mercy paints images of grandeur of the old South with its huge plantations, elegant gatherings that made obvious class distinctions, and of awesomely vast cultivated fields of cotton and grains drawing nourishment from nearby rivers. The Hatcher history of Riverbend Plantation includes the freedom of slaves by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and its impact on families, both black and white. Freed men and women left the palatial plantation homes and fields without necessary care returning them to dilapidated remnants of once postcard beauty, and overgrown acres of dreadful ruin and decay. Morsels of Hart County, Georgia's history, the Hatcher family, and events made available to us through the intentional "passing history down" by word-of-mouth, coupled with the imagination of Author Margaret Hatcher House, await readers between the covers of A Measure of Mercy! Read More Read Less