Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
Oh, to be back there, and be young again. To be seated in the dawning hours of my life, the sun of everything breaking over the horizon, and all the promises and tragedies ahead of me. To be there in that chaise, with a day-pass, and a girl I loved more than anything, in the last doleful days of old and desolate Virginia. Oh, to be there with time to spare, with time to dream of riding out as far as that Elm County road went until fortune abandoned us. (查看原文)
But I now knew the truth—that Maynard’s folly, though more profane, was unoriginal. The masters could not bring water to boil, harness a horse, nor strap their own drawers without us. We were better than them—we had to be. Sloth was literal death for us, while for them it was the whole ambition of their lives. (查看原文)
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0 有用 Ann 2020-06-10 22:59:11
DNF
0 有用 麻麻妈妈 2021-04-09 19:06:14
情节略拖沓，读起来感觉类似楚乔传，嘿嘿
0 有用 九九 2020-09-03 11:29:20
剧情发展较慢 但文笔我真的可以
1 有用 mango 2019-12-21 07:27:51
带了些魔幻元素的关于奴隶的故事，文笔优美情节一般不吸引人，看了很久才读完
1 有用 随机遥控器 2021-07-09 23:03:14
去年这时候费劲地看完 真的不知道这个conduction是在干啥 完全没有好好利用设定