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Slave And Sister by Sabra Waldfogel– 367 pages Book Blurb: Adelaide Mannheim and her slave Rachel have grown up with a shameful secret. Adelaide’s father is Rachel’s father, too. Their secret shadows their girlhood together and follows them into Adelaide’s marriage....
The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy– 320 pages Book Blurb: When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading...
I Shall Be Near To You by Erin Lindsay McCabe–297 pages Book Blurb: Rosetta doesn't want her new husband Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her father’s...
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride - 432 pages Book Blurb: Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the...
Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall - 270 pages Advanced Reader Copy courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Shelf Awareness Book Blurb: Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness. It is the only...
Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman - 621 pages Book Blurb: Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president’s wife to be called First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a...
March by Geraldine Brooks - 304 pages Book Blurb: The book imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union chaplain and later finds himself assigned to be a...