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The fighting had not yet
begun. Many people hoped it never would; some people felt it was
only a matter of time and a few were even trying to force it
right away. The lines had been drawn and the sides chosen: Free,
slave, rich, poor, northerner, southerner, abolitionist,
immigrant, Indian. They all had a stake in the battle that
someday would come. The year was 1858 and the people of the
United States of America were desperately trying to avoid a
civil war.
In
a world of hatred, fear and mistrust, two young people tried to
make sense of it all. David,
the son of an Irish immigrant father and abolitionist mother was
treated like an outsider in the neighborhood.
His Irish heritage made him a stranger to the kids on the
street and his mother=s money and friends made him an outcast to his old Irish buddies.
All he wanted was to be liked.
Lisa,
a young slave on a rice plantation in Georgia, could never
understand why her father accepted his life of slavery so
easily. So, when
one day he took her hand and ran off into the woods she found it
hard to believe she might actually be able to get that taste of
freedom she always dreamed of.
The problem for them both was that slave catchers were
determined to send Lisa and her Daddy back to the South even if
they had to go to David=s hometown of Boston to get them!
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