ISBN: 9780595309610

A Walk Among Blue Slate Markers is a historical novel about that "peculiar institution" called slavery. In the early seventeen hundreds, Tobias Rutherford, a shopkeeper in Liverpool, Engl… mais…

A Walk Among Blue Slate Markers is a historical novel about that "peculiar institution" called slavery. In the early seventeen hundreds, Tobias Rutherford, a shopkeeper in Liverpool, England, sets in motion a cruel chain of events that followed his son, Winfield, across the Atlantic Ocean and into his mansion at Irongate Plantation. Winfield and his wife, Beatrice, are consumed with jealousy and hatred, not only for each other, but for their house slaves, as well. And when passions erupt in candlelit bedrooms, Winfield attempts murder and Beatrice forces Absalom, a house slave, to commit a crime, that if revealed, would find him hanging from the end of a rope. After Winfield's death, Matilda, his great-great granddaughter continues the violence. Out of revenge, she accuses Celia Godwin, a free black, of harboring a slave. The slave is thought to be a Rutherford, but old Dulcie, midwife at Irongate, is made to swear that Cressa, a slave girl, gave birth to the child. In the end, it is Tobias' great-great-great granddaughter, who becomes the victim to violence at the hands of runaway slaves. | A Walk Among Blue Slate Markers Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Fiction > Historical Fiction P10140, Iuniverse<

ISBN: 9780595309610

A Walk Among blue Slate Markers is a historical novel about that "peculiar institution" called slavery. Ingram's novel is set in Colonial Virginia during the 1700s and 1800s, and she draw… mais…

A Walk Among blue Slate Markers is a historical novel about that "peculiar institution" called slavery. Ingram's novel is set in Colonial Virginia during the 1700s and 1800s, and she draws on the history of her family, who were free blacks during the antebellum period to tell her story. Ingram unearths memories of freedom fighters, free black, those enslaved, and with a bold stroke of her pen, she recreates the lives of those who fought to change the face of slavery. Books Books ~~ Fiction~~ Historical A-Walk-Among-Blue-Slate-Markers~~Edith-M-Stanton-Ingram iUniverse, Incorporated<

2004, ISBN: 0595309615

Kartoniert / Broschiert FICTION / Historical, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:iUniverse]