Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we...

The end of slavery is no guarantee of freedom. Twelve year old Clayton McGhee journeys north from Alabama with his parents and grandparents in search of a new life. In Indiana they build a homestead with their own labour, demanding the right to live as free people in the face of deep rooted prejudice. Thirty years later, Clayton is forced to defend his family from racism and greed, but life is more complex now, and established power ever more desperate...

"The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman -- and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves' freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation...