About This Book
The older brother’s new bride displaced his younger brother from their shared bedroom in Topsfield, Massachusetts. The year was 1850, and the Civil War was still a decade away. Resentful about his loss, Nathan signed on to a whaling ship and was gone for four years. When he returned home, all he found was a burned out shell of a farmhouse with no family in sight. A letter in the post office informed him that he and his older brother David had inherited a cotton plantation along with one hundred slaves.
The transplanted New Englanders turned out to have markedly different reactions to slavery. Nathan fell in love with a slave girl who had nursed him back to health after a horrific riding accident. He soon found out that the laws in South Carolina forbade any kind of a meaningful between the lovers. They fled to New Hampshire. The older brother, who was physically attracted to the same woman, sent his overseer North to recapture what he considered to be his property. The chase was on.
