The purchase
By: Linda Spalding
Publisher: Emblem, McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780771079368
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Widowers; Fiction; Slavery; Life change events
Description: In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, a young Quaker father and widower, leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life. He sets out with two horses, a wagonful of belongings, his five children, a 15-year-old orphan wife, and a few land warrants for his future homestead. When Daniel suddenly trades a horse for a young slave, Onesimus, it sets in motion a struggle in his conscience that will taint his life forever, and sets in motion a chain of events that lead to two murders and the family's strange relationship with a runaway slave named Bett.
Notes: Originally published: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, ©2012.