Written during the war, this long abolitionist novel follows a fugitive slave named Peculiar, a young woman unaware of her own inheritance, and the planters and Northern allies whose lives become entangled with theirs. Sargent sets the ‘upper law’ of conscience against the law of slavery; his portrayal of Black characters carries the conventions of 1864.
A substantial, rarely read Union novel that argued its cause with plot and passion. Download the free EPUB.