Kai Thomas
Author
Language
English
Description
In the 1800s in Dunmore, a Canadian town settled by people fleeing enslavement in America, Lensinda Martin works for a Black journalist. One night, a farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot dead on his land by an old woman who arrived via the Underground Railroad. The farmer urges Lensinda to gather testimony from her before she can be condemned for the crime. But the old woman doesn't want to confess. Instead she proposes a barter: a...