Alternate history in which during the U.S. Civil War both North and South refuse to allow Blacks to serve and the war ends in a stalemate with neither side winning. The depleted southern forces return home riddled with disease and all whites die or, in a few cases, are killed. New Africa, the old South, was populated by people divided by their place of origin, without a common language, and unwilling to work together. A sect of Silents, who vow never to speak, arise to remind people of the sin of Pride.
BT - Alternate Histories: Eleven Stories Stories of the World As it Might Have Been C6 -The female author (1936-2015) held a doctorate in linguistics from the University of California, San Diego and wrote extensively on the subject. Her birth name was Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins​.
C7 - 1986 CY - New York DA - 01/1986 LA - eng N1 -Rpt. in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Fiction and Feminism. Ed. Helen Merrick and Tess Williams (Perth, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1999), 311-18.
N2 -Alternate history in which during the U.S. Civil War both North and South refuse to allow Blacks to serve and the war ends in a stalemate with neither side winning. The depleted southern forces return home riddled with disease and all whites die or, in a few cases, are killed. New Africa, the old South, was populated by people divided by their place of origin, without a common language, and unwilling to work together. A sect of Silents, who vow never to speak, arise to remind people of the sin of Pride.
PB - Garland PP - New York PY - 1986 SP - 231 EP - 37 T2 - Alternate Histories: Eleven Stories Stories of the World As it Might Have Been TI - "Hush My Mouth" ER -