Title: A reckoning
Description: A Virginia family must come to terms with their slave-owning past as the Civil War approaches and an abolitionist visits their plantation, throwing it into turmoil before compelling the family to move West.
Subjects: Life change events, Families, Fugitive slaves, History, Slavery, Fiction, United states, history, 1815-1861, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, family life, United states, fiction, Slaves, fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century