A Mississippi Plantation: Civil War pits countrymen against one another and tears a nation asunder. Life and death are held in the balance where everyone is a slave to something.
One is born free, yet lives as a soul in bondage…
Lydia Harper never intended to purchase a slave. But when she witnesses a woman being beaten in the street, all her pretenses begin to unravel. A bride to a man she barely knows and bound by her secrets, Lydia will risk everything to save a stranger. Amid the War Between the States, the mistress of Ironwood faces the battles in her own heart and discovers strength in a way she never imagined.
The other is born to serve, yet holds the spirit of freedom…
Ruth, standing on the threshold of desperation, has lost everything she holds dear. After being pulled from the dirt, she is no longer a field hand but the personal maid to the lady of Ironwood. Ruth soon realizes adversity pays no mind to the color of skin. When propriety slips, she discovers they have more in common than she dreamed possible. In a time when fear brings the South to its knees, two women will forge a friendship in the fires of redemption and thrust Ironwood into a new future – where the battle for freedom has merely begun.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Whistle Walk
Book Author: Stephenia McGee
What do you like about this book:
"It seems to me like evil pays no mind to your status or color."
As a tentative new bride, Lydia Harper is horrified to witness a young Negro woman's brutal beating upon a trip into town, surprising even her husband by purchasing the woman to serve as her own lady's maid. Ruth, having recently been stolen from her previous master's plantation, is grateful to be alive and quickly learns what the mistress of her new home expects of her. When the call to war descends upon the deep South, Lydia and Ruth become determined to save Ironwood for generations to come, no matter what the cost.
Two women, separated by societal expectations and inexplicably united by injustice, forge a union that transcends the "whistle walk" along Mississippi's beautiful Ironwood plantation. Would that we would all "write our story on the wall", for "there is a balm in Gilead . . . . to cure a sin-sick soul".
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