Description In her sweeping debut, Diane C.
McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history--Southern Abolitionists--and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict.
On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews begs her father to save a slave, Nathan, about to be auctioned away from his family.
Judge Matthews is an abolitionist who runs an illegal school for his slaves, hoping .
John Scognamiglio Book The abolitionist's daughter, hardcover/diane c. mcphail
