On Marston’s plantation, life looks bright to visitors, but the planter’s household hides the children he has fathered with enslaved women and the cruelties on which the estate rests. Adams follows them through sales, separations, escapes and the slave markets of the South, determined to show truth stranger than fiction.
A fervent abolitionist novel of the 1850s, written in its era’s language about race. Download the free EPUB.