Worthy Brown's daughter

Summary: One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.

Item details

ISBN: 9780062195340
ISBN: 0062195344
ISBN: 9780062195357
Physical Description: print
345 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, [2014]
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- Most Copies: 4 / 5.0

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-345).

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Subject:

Freedmen Fiction
Legal stories
Trials (Murder) Fiction
Oregon History 19th century Fiction
Freemen Oregon Portland Fiction
Fathers and daughters Fiction
Rescues Fiction
Murder Fiction
Portland (Or.) 19th century Fiction
Fathers and daughters
Freemen
Murder
Rescues
Oregon Portland

Genre:

Suspense fiction.
Legal stories.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.

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