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03721aam a2200445 i 4500 001 929C2D28F0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 240313s2024 nyu d 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0593861825 020 $a 9780593861820 035 $a (OCoLC)1427367198 040 $a HQD $b eng $e rda $c HQD $d PX0 $d OCLCO $d BDX $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Lattimore, Ashton, $e author. 245 10 $a All We Were Promised / $c Ashton Lattimore. 250 $a First large print edition 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House Large Print, $c 2024. 300 $a 502 pages (large print) ; $c 24 cm 340 $n large print (16 point) $2 rdafs 520 $a "The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, hiding their past and identities to protect themselves from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives. Charlotte longs to break away, but outside the walls of their townhouse, the City of Brotherly Love is up in arms. Pennsylvania is a free state, yet abolitionists are struggling to establish a permanent home for the anti-slavery movement, as southern sympathizers incite violence against free Black people and white vigilantes stalk the streets. Undeterred, Charlotte sneaks out and forges an unlikely friendship with Nell, a member of one of Philadelphia's wealthiest Black families. Nell is under so much pressure from her parents to settle down and marry Alex, a close family friend, that the two pretend to get engaged, just to take the heat off. Meanwhile Nell and Charlotte grow close over their mutual commitment to abolition, so when Evie, Charlotte's enslaved friend from White Oaks, shows up in the city, they conspire to help her flee North. Charlotte and her father's freedom is threatened as she and Nell navigate the abolitionist world's racial and class politics and ever-present dangers, struggling to forge a plan to free Evie from slavery before it's too late. Inspired by the untold history of Pennsylvania Hall, one of Philadelphia's landmarks lost to violence, All We Were Promised is the story of three young Black women-the rebel, the socialite, and the fugitive-fighting for each other in an American city straining to live up to its loftiest ideals"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Abolitionists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slavery $z United States $x History $v Fiction. 650 6 $a Abolitionnistes $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 650 6 $a Esclavage $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 $z EÌtats-Unis $0 (CaQQLa)201-0115854 $x Histoire $0 (CaQQLa)201-0115854 $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0377299 651 0 $a Philadelphia (Pa.) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a large print books. $2 aat $0 (CStmoGRI)aatgf300206232 655 7 $a Large print books. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Livres en gros caracteÌres. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001620 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 941 $a 4 945 $a lpt 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240514010939.0 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20240503011924.0 952 $l NEPC953 $d 20240423100743.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240402012157.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=929C2D28F0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search