β Gordon A. Kessler
π Fiction
π
2011
π Xlibris Corp
π English
β 168 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
A Reckoning A Novel: novel
β Scribed by Linda Spalding
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 241 KB
- Edition
- First United States edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A richly evocative and important novel about what happens to a Virginia family that must come to terms with their slave-owning past as the Civil War approaches and an abolitionist visits their plantation, throwing it into turmoil and eventually sending the family West.
It is 1855. The thousand-acre Dickinson farm on the Virginia-Kentucky border is run by two brothers--Benjamin, who owns the land, and John, a circuit-riding Methodist preacher, who manages the land and the sale of cotton and brandy. When a naturalist arrives asking questions about birds and plants, he's invited to stay--but his real mission is to distribute maps, compasses, and knives to the slaves, who then begin to escape, causing chaos on the farm and bitterness between the brothers. We follow one half of the family as they head for the Kansas Territory and we follow one of the runaway slaves as he travels to freedom in Canada. Both journeys are full of electrifying incident, near...
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