Worthy Brown's Daughter
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Harper, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 345 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062195340
0062195344
SUBJECTS
Freedmen -- Fiction.
Lawyers -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Freemen -- Portland -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Rescues -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Oregon -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Portland (Or.) -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Legal stories.
Historical fiction.