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Ellen nodded slowly, watching her reflection. Practice the movements. Slower, stiffer, the careful, pained gate of a man whose body was failing him. She had…

They had risked everything on the belief that slavery was wrong and must be resisted. History had proven them right. Their return to Georgia carried…

Gentlemen, don’t stare. If someone asks a question you can’t answer, pretend the illness has made you hard of hearing. And never, ever let anyone…

He was younger than Ellen expected, perhaps in his late 20s, with sharp eyes that seemed to catalog every detail. When Ellen approached, he looked…

Dawn came cold and gray over Charleston. Ellen and William left the hotel before the city fully woke, moving through streets still shadowed and quiet….

Most white folks traveling for health, they bring family or they hire nurses along the way. Just one servant seems light. It was the same…

He glanced at Ellen at the sickly posture and bandaged arm at William following behind. His eyes lingered for a moment on William’s face, and…

Where I had chosen hatred and revenge, he had chosen love and forgiveness. I continued reading, turning pages almost frantically as though I was starving,…

This was why their former enslavers never stopped hunting them. This was why slave catchers came to Boston armed with federal warrants. Ellen and William…