Rosa and Flora Royal grow up in luxury in New Orleans, gifted and adored, unaware that their late mother was enslaved. When their father dies in debt, they discover that the law counts them as property. Child follows the sisters through deception, flight and exile in Europe, and across a generation of secrets, to the end of the Civil War.
A bold antislavery novel of 1867 that confronted racism and interracial marriage head on. Download the free EPUB.
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