Sprawling historical fiction that reiterates the complexity of the aboltionist movement and the American Civil War through the sympathetic narrator of John Brown's son Owen. In the end it drives home the point, among many otherd, that all were implicated in industry of slavery: the South, the North, Britain, the "slavers" and the gentile abolitionists in New England like Ralph Waldo Emerson.
— Nov 23, 2015 07:21PM
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