Comfort
Subtitle: a novel of the reverse Underground Railroad
By: H.A. Maxxon and Claudia H. Young
Contributors: Young, Claudia H.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Marion, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781624910449
Subjects: Slavery; Fiction
Description: Comfort is a talented young seamstress who has worked to buy her freedom from slavery from her benevolent owner, an Irish immigrant and former indentured servant. Her husband, Cuff, is an unwise, irresponsible and weak man who sells his wife to pay his gambling debt. When Comfort falls into the hands of the reprehensible dealer of human flesh Joe Johnson, she is sold south to Virginia to a cruel master and poor manager.
Notes: "A woman strives to gain her freedom--again"--Cover.