Original sins
Subtitle: a novel of slavery and freedom
By: Peg Kingman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780393065473
Subjects: Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Missing children -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction; United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Why would a runaway Virginia slave--having built a rewarding life in the East Indies as a silk merchant--risk everything by returning to America in 1840, eighteen years after taking her freedom? Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason is to find the child she abandoned when she ran away.