title: For Freedom, Christ Has Set Us Free
author: Keating, Helen
description: For Freedom, Christ Has Set Us Free, is the story of Maria, who travels along the Oregon Trail with her sister to meet Levi, her future husband and a rancher in California. Managing to survive the tests that a wagon train can give to a young woman unused to manual labor, she arrives at Levi’s ranch with a surprise. A few family slaves accompany her and Levi tells her clearly that they won’t be slaves on his ranch. She then becomes unsure whether he can ever love her, and she him, and almost more uncertain about the many chores she has to learn so she can help Levi manage his little piece of California