A freed slave, Violet Bowman enjoys life in Boston. But late one night two slaves appear at her door. Believing it is her Christian responsibility, she gives them a place to hide. Within a week, Violet is arrested for harboring fugitives. When Sar...
Will Sarah at last find freedom on these shores of promise? Emigrating to the United States from England in 1840, Sarah Brown is full of optimism. The illiterate servant girl is sure she will find a better life than the one she had known as a near...
The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell’s debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her wry, often darkly funny voice describes the repre...