Contending Forces
Автор:
Pauline E. HopkinsЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2026-09-21Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
84
Description
In response to the upcoming abolition of slavery in the British Empire, Charles Montfort, an English planter in Bermuda, decides to move his family (and his human chattel) to the southern United States in order to free his slaves on his own schedule. However, Montfort’s arrival arouses the jealousy and anger of his neighbors, who murder Montfort and capture his wife and sons as slaves.
Several decades later, Charles Montfort’s lineage survives in the Smiths, a family of Black Bostonians headed by the matriarch Ma Smith, who keeps a boarding house alongside her daughter Dora and her son Will. When a beautiful but mysterious...
