Overview
From USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American slavery and rocked the nation with his astoundingly heroic story.
A passionate advocate of abolition from her earliest years, Ann’s activism was derailed just before her twenty-fourth birthday, when she fell sick with a mysterious illness. In order to protect her fragile health, her husband, the famous abolitionist Wendell Phillips, forbade her from joining any further anti-slavery outings. Even so, when fugitive slave Anthony Burns is apprehended in Boston, Ann is determined to help him, no matter what it costs her.
With a particular focus on the predicament of nineteenth-century women who wanted to effect change despite the restrictions society imposed on them, The Stockwell Letters takes a deep dive into the harrowing conditions of the antebellum South and the obstacles faced by abolitionists who fought tirelessly to eradicate slavery. A fast-paced, arresting recounting of America’s not-so-distant history, the story will stay with readers long after the final page.
Review
Ann becomes sick before her twenty-fourth birthday. Her illness is a complete puzzle to the physicians. She is weak, fatigued and aches all the time, to the point of not getting out of bed. She struggles on and eventually marries her long time beau, Wendell. These two become the voice of the abolitionist movement in the area surrounding Boston.
The setting of Boston before the civil war is a unique. I also loved the way the author wrote about her women characters, especially Ann. She knows what needs to be done and she does it!
This time period used to be my jam. For some reason, I moved away from it. But this novel may have me coming back. Talk about emotional! This story brings to light how terrible this period in our history actually was. If it had not been for people like Ann and her husband…I don’t even want to contemplate.
Need a well researched, abolition novel…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today
I received this novel from the author for a honest review.
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