Walk through darkness
By: David Anthony Durham.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: African American men -- Fiction.; Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.; Married people -- Fiction.; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.; Annapolis (Md.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Walk Through Darkness is the tale of two very different men, each on a quest, both tied together by a history of remorse, jealousy, and a love that crosses the barriers of race during the time of slavery.".

"William, a fugitive slave from Maryland, is driven by two powerful needs - to find his wife, Dover, who is pregnant with his child, and to live as a free man. He undertakes the treacherous journey north to restore meaning to his life, putting him at odds with the law and the sentiments of a nation. Morrison, who fled a painful youth in Scotland, had once hoped to establish a new life in America with his brother, but the unforeseen realities of immigrant life drove them apart.".

"As David Anthony Durham traces the physical and spiritual journeys of William, Dover, and Morrison, he captures in detail the events and the landscape of America just before the turmoil of the Civil War.

Interweaving tragedy and hardship with a profound understanding of enduring love and the desire for freedom, Walk Through Darkness is a complex story that is uniquely American, reflecting the tortured nature of the country's bloodlines and uncovering the deep bonds - and wounds - that exist across racial lines. This is a work of "fiction in history" that follows two very different men's paths to freedom, and places a difficult part of our nation's history under a magnifying glass to search for something beyond pain.

In the end, it also presents a new possibility of healing - for the characters, and for the larger racial divide that still haunts the United States."--BOOK JACKET.