Worthy brown's daughter
Margolin, Phillip
Worthy brown's daughter / Phillip Margolin - First edition - 345 pages
One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.
9780062195340
Freed persons--Fiction
Historical fiction
Fic
Worthy brown's daughter / Phillip Margolin - First edition - 345 pages
One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.
9780062195340
Freed persons--Fiction
Historical fiction
Fic