Unions Daughter, Sabra Waldfogel
Unions Daughter, Sabra Waldfogel
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Union's Daughter

Author: Sabra Waldfogel

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Unabridged: 10 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/23/2020


Synopsis

One woman abhors her past. The other fights for freedom. Will their battle for emancipation leave them casualties of war?

South Carolina, 1862. Emily Jarvie is determined to send her family's slave-owning history to its grave. When the Union Army captures the Sea Islands, she returns to the south to teach the former slaves, part of the Army's unusual experiment in racial equality. Despite her loyalty to the Union cause, her Southern heritage raises a brick wall of Yankee suspicion.

Oberlin College, Ohio. Fugitive slave Caro Jarvie longs to pick up a rifle to fight for freedom. But as a woman, she has to settle for reporting on the war second-hand from the Union Army camp in the Sea Islands. When she learns that Harriet Tubman is in South Carolina to lead a military mission to free slaves, Caro seizes her chance to enter the fray.

As Emily and Caro struggle to bury the past, old loves and new flames open a door to the future they both hope for. But with the war for America's soul raging ever closer, each woman finds her strength tested as she strives for a better tomorrow.

Can they forge a legacy of love and acceptance during a time of turmoil and death?

About Sabra Waldfogel

Sabra Waldfogel grew up far from the South in Minneapolis. She studied history at Harvard University and received her PhD in American history from the University of Minnesota and since then, has been fascinated by the drama of slavery and freedom in the decades before and after the Civil War. Her first novel, Sister of Mine, published by Lake Union, was named the 2017 winner of the Audio Publishers Association's Audie Award for fiction. In her free time, not tired of history, she collects antiques and helps her husband sell them.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ona

I like this sequel less than the original because I could not believe the characters would put themselves in such ridiculous danger to forward the plot. They make some really stupid decisions I'm guessing because the author couldn't come up with a plausible narrative that took place in the North rat......more

Goodreads review by Terri

this novel is the second and final of the Low Country Series and completes the tales of cousins Caro and Emily. i foynd it much less engaging than for first and struggled a bit to stay with it. While I appreciated its account of early reconstruction in both the north and south, I found the account t......more

Union's Daughter Review I enjoyed the story line of life during the Civil War for the slaves and once they were free. I've been to Charleston so I could picture the streets, homes and business. There were times the book moved too slowly for me and other times I had to reread parts because I was aware......more