Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil Wa
Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just died and Cap'n Buck―the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina―has come to collect a debt. Fearing for his life, Cha
Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. He's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that. Unfortun
