Worthy Brown's Daughter
New York, NY : Harper, [2014]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 345 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:
Freed persons -- Fiction.
Legal stories.
Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Freemen -- Oregon -- Portland -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Rescues -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Oregon -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Portland (Or.) -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Freed persons -- Fiction.
Legal stories.
Trials (Murder) -- Fiction.
Freemen -- Oregon -- Portland -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Rescues -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Oregon -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Portland (Or.) -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780062195340
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Margolin | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
F Margolin | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
F Margolin | Southeast | Fiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-345).