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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lattimore, Ashton, author.     Subjects     Abolitionists -- Fiction.     Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Enslaved women -- Fiction.     Slavery -- United States -- History -- Fiction.     Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lattimore, Ashton, author.       by title:      All we were promised...         MARC Display

All we were promised : a novel / Ashton Lattimore. by Lattimore, Ashton, author. New York : Ballantine Books, [2024] Subjects Abolitionists -- Fiction.   Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.   Family secrets -- Fiction.   Enslaved women -- Fiction.   Slavery -- United States -- History -- Fiction.   Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780593600153 (hardback) 0593600150 (hardback) Description:  357 pages : illustration ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  5 Summary:  "The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, hiding their past and identities to protect themselves from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives. Charlotte longs to break away, but outside the walls of their townhouse, the City of Brotherly Love is up in arms. Pennsylvania is a free state, yet abolitionists are struggling to establish a permanent home for the anti-slavery movement, as southern sympathizers incite violence against free Black people and white vigilantes stalk the streets. Undeterred, Charlotte sneaks out and forges an unlikely friendship with Nell, a member of one of Philadelphia's wealthiest Black families. Nell is under so much pressure from her parents to settle down and marry Alex, a close family friend, that the two pretend to get engaged, just to take the heat off. Meanwhile Nell and Charlotte grow close over their mutual commitment to abolition, so when Evie, Charlotte's enslaved friend from White Oaks, shows up in the city, they conspire to help her flee North. Charlotte and her father's freedom is threatened as she and Nell navigate the abolitionist world's racial and class politics and ever-present dangers, struggling to forge a plan to free Evie from slavery before it's too late. Inspired by the untold history of Pennsylvania Hall, one of Philadelphia's landmarks lost to violence, All We Were Promised is the story of three young Black women--the rebel, the socialite, and the fugitive--fighting for each other in an American city straining to live up to its loftiest ideals"-- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Acquisitions --- On Order   On Order Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Fiction Lattimore In Cataloging Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Fiction Lattimore Item being held Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Fiction Lattimore Transit Request Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Fiction Lattimore In Cataloging Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Acquisitions --- On Order   in Processing Add Copy to MyList

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