Passion and Proud Hearts — Lydia Lancaster

The Beddoes family-three generations of Americans joined and divided by love and hate, principle and promise. Beautiful, proud women: the abolitionist Martha; her daughter, the ardent Prue. Passionate men: Jonathan, whose slaves are his property, his friends and his lovers; Adam, his grandson, whose odyssey leads him West. Husband, wife, brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, black and white, in the decades surrounding the Civil War - in Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas - all intertwined in a tempestuous saga of Passion and Proud Hearts.