On a blazing Sunday on a Red River plantation in Louisiana, an enslaved man’s flight begins the story. It continues in Boston, where the idealistic young Harrington, fencing pupils, the sisters Muriel and Emily and a set of pro-slavery agents collide over the fate of fugitives, in a long, impassioned novel written on the eve of the Civil War.
A fervent abolitionist novel by the man who later defended Walt Whitman in The Good Gray Poet. Download the free EPUB.