The purchase
By: Linda Spalding
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: W F Howes Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781471246692; 9781432854386
Subjects: Fiction; History
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 wagon full 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: This large print edition originally published: Highland, Scotland : Sandstone Press, 2013.

Winner of the Canada Council for the Arts 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction