About this book
Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
Subjects
Kentucky, fictionNew orleans (la.), fictionFiction, historical, generalFiction, war & militarySlaves, fictionUnited states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fictionRacially mixed peopleWomen slavesPlantation lifeNew Orleans (La.) Civil War, 1861-1865FictionHistoryFiction, historical