Title: Original sins : a novel /
Authors: Kingman, Peg.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Fugitive slaves Fiction; Missing children Fiction; Southern States Fiction.; United States Social conditions Fiction.
Abstract: Why would a runaway Virginia slave--having built a rewarding life in the East Indies as a silk merchant--risk everything by returning to America in 1840, eighteen years after taking her freedom? Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason is to find the child she abandoned when she ran away.