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<p><i>Freeman</i>, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam—a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army—decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South. What compels him on this almost-suicidal course is the desire to find his wife, the mother of his only child, whom he and their son left behind 15 years earlier on the Mississippi farm to which they all "belonged."</p> <p>At the same time, Sam's wife, Tilda, is being forced to walk at gunpoint with her owner and two of his other slaves from the charred remains of his Mississippi farm into Arkansas, in search of an undefined place that would still respect his entitlements as slaveowner and Confederate officer.</p> <p>The book's third main character, Prudence, is a fearless, headstrong white woman of means who leaves her Boston home for Buford, Mississippi, to start a school for the former bondsmen, and thus honor her father’s dying wish.</p> <p>At bottom, <i>Freeman</i> is a love story—sweeping, generous, brutal, compassionate, p

Who reads Freeman : a Novel?

Author

Pitts Jr., Leonard

Publisher

Agate Bolden

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572846999

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.29 / 5 (2,392 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14