In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl girl faces an inconceivable choice--between bondage and and freedom, family and love--as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
year: 2014
call number/section: 1000
subjects: slaves, fiction, slavery, historical fiction, freedmen, coming of age, mason-dixon line, 19th century, fiction, united states, history