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In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical book, a Quaker family moves from Pa to the Virginia frontier, where slaves will be the only available employees and where the family's beliefs and values are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, just lately widowed, is shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant young lady to help along with his five small children. He steps his shaken family down the Wilderness Street to the Virginia/Kentucky border. Although determined to carry to his Quaker ways, and despite his most dearly kept notion that slavery is a sin, Daniel becomes the owner of a young boy named Onesimus, setting in action a twisted string of happenings that will lead to tragedy and murder, permanently changing his children's lives and driving the booklet to an unexpected conclusion.
