Linda Spalding
1) A reckoning
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's 1855, and the Dickinson farm in Virginia is already in debt when a Northern abolitionist arrives and creates havoc among the slaves. Determined to find his mother and daughter who are already free in Canada, Bry is the first to flee, inspiring a dozen others. Soon the farm, owned by one brother and managed by another, is forfeited to the bank. One brother, a circuit-riding preacher, gathers his flock into a wagon train and heads west. But...
2) The purchase
Author
Language
English
Description
Pennsylvania, 1798. Devout Quaker Daniel Dickinson has lost his wife. When he marries a fifteen-year-old Methodist orphan to help with his five small children, his fellow Quakers disown him for impropriety. Forced out of his community, Daniel moves the family to the Virginia frontier to establish a new homestead. While determined to hold to his Quaker abolitionism, Daniel is now in a slave state, and is soon the owner of a young boy. This fatal...