Dual narrative linking a 19th-century enslaved girl's escape with a modern lawyer's reparations lawsuit, exploring justice, secrets, and freedom.
Dual narrative linking a 19th-century enslaved girl's escape with a modern lawyer's reparations lawsuit, exploring justice, secrets, and freedom.
Conklin weaves together the stories of two remarkable heroines: a runaway slave in the pre-Civil War South and a lawyer in modern-day New York working on a historic class-action lawsuit.
will contain mild spoilers
On-page rape and sexual assault of enslaved character; romantic threads
Beatings, blood, and violent abuse under slavery; child death depicted
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No magic or witchcraft elements present
No occult or demonology content present
Central slavery-reparations lawsuit and racial justice themes
Suicide depicted as a significant graphic content element
Slavery central; rape, assault, child death, trafficking, systemic cruelty
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