Honor Bright is a modest English Quaker who moves to Ohio in 1850, only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. IN her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, drawn into the clandestine activites of the Underground Railroad, Honor befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if shetoo can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal cost.
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