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Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., occurs in the first couple of months following a Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam - a runaway slave who once did the trick for the Union Army - decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and lay out on foot to come back to the war-torn South. What compels him upon this almost-suicidal course is the desire to find his better half, the mom of his only child, whom he and their child left out 15 years previously the Mississippi plantation to which they all "belonged". At the same time, Sam's better half, Tilda, has been pressured to walk at gunpoint with her owner and two of his other slaves from the charred remains of his Mississippi plantation into Arkansas, searching for an undefined place that could still value his entitlements as slave owner and Confederate officer. The book's third main identity, Prudence, is a fearless, headstrong white woman of means who leaves her Boston home for Buford, Mississippi, to get started on a university for the former bondsmen, and therefore honor her father's dying wish. At its main, Freeman is a love report - sweeping, good, brutal, compassionate, patient - about the thoughts people were identified to honor, despite the extensive constraints of the days. It is this facet of the novel which should ensure it a strong, vocal, core audience of African-American women, who will help propel its likely critical acclaim to a wider audience. At the same time, this book addresses several designs that remain hotly debated today, some 145 years following the official end of the Civil Warfare. Like Cool Pile, Freeman illuminates the days and places it identifies from a fresh point of view, with stunning results. It has the potential to become typical addition to the literature dealing with this period. Few other books so powerfully get the pathos and likelihood of the era, especially as it demonstrates the ordeal of the dark-colored slaves grappling with the assurance - and the terror - of these new status as free women and men.
