The sling served a purpose that went beyond mere costume. Ellen had been deliberately kept from learning to read or write, a common practice designed…
She had sat beside a man who knew her face, who had seen her countless times, and he had looked directly at her without a…
She nodded gratefully at the silver-haired man who waved away the thanks. Get yourself upstairs and rest, young man. You look like death warmed over.…
” Ellen closed her eyes trying to imagine it. a world where she wasn’t performing, wasn’t hiding, wasn’t constantly one mistake away from destruction. It…
One more night, one more morning, one more train ride, and then Pennsylvania, and then freedom. What they couldn’t know sitting in that back room…
It seemed impossible, a fantasy too fragile to believe in. “If we make it,” she said. “We’ve made it this far,” William replied. “Outside,” Richmond…
It was a choice that had to be made again and again, even when choosing meant stepping into the unknown with nothing but hope to…
Ellen’s disguise especially captured public imagination, a woman who had transformed herself into a white man, traveling openly through the heart of slavery stronghold, using…
Ellen set down the scissors and picked up the components of her transformation. Each item acquired carefully over the past week. A pair of dark…
His mind simply would not allow the possibility that the sick young gentleman beside him could be anything other than what he appeared to be.…
