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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK ? This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother?s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a ?celebration of motherhood and female resilience? (The Observer). ?A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined??Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal LibrarianHer search begins with an ending....The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs.Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children--the five
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