cadiz, spain

 in the story north and south by elizabeth gaskell the story speaks of cadiz spain due to a characters brother living there. Margaret the main character from North and south has an older brother by the name of Frederick Hale. he is a fugitive living in spain since his involvment with a mutiny while serving beneath a very cruel officer with the Britain Navy. Also in the story Fred goes to cadiz from south america. Here Fred works for an english merchant called Mr. Barbour in which who he gets engaged with his daughter Anglo-Spanish Dolores.

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He had really a movement of anger against her at that moment…Joy came first, in spite of the threatening train behind it…They were parted all the same, but—Dorothea drew a deep breath and felt her strength return—she could think of him unrestrainedly. At that moment the parting was easy to bear: the first sense of loving and being loved excluded sorrow. It was as if some hard icy pressure had melted, and her consciousness had room to expand: her past was come back to her with larger interpretation.

West Indies

The West Indies are the islands that separate the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, modern day Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Slave labor had been used in the West Indies for close to two hundred years, but around the time of North and South things had started to change

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