Minnie and Louis, raised as white without knowing that their mothers were enslaved, learn the truth of their birth on the eve of the Civil War. Rather than hide it, they choose to join the struggle of the freed people in the South, and the novel follows their work as teachers and reformers through the violent years of Reconstruction.
A serial novel by the abolitionist poet and lecturer, lost for over a century and rediscovered in the 1990s. Download the free EPUB.