Sue Monk Kidd · 2014 · overland

Sue Monk Kidd's 2014 novel. In early-1800s Charleston, Sarah Grimke, daughter of a slaveholding family, is given the enslaved girl Handful as a birthday present - and the two lives twine across decades of longing for freedom. Hearing a call to 'go North,' Sarah leaves for Quaker Philadelphia and, with her sister Angelina, becomes a pioneering abolitionist, barred from ever coming home.

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   Charleston

   In a grand, cruel Charleston slaveholding household, young Sarah Grimke is handed ownership of the enslaved girl Handful - a gift she abhors - and the two grow up bound together, each longing for a freedom the city forbids.

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   Philadelphia

   Hearing an inner voice tell her to 'go North,' Sarah leaves Charleston for Quaker Philadelphia, where among the Friends who wrote the first anti-slavery testimony she slowly finds her conscience, her calling, and her voice.

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   New York

   With her sister Angelina, Sarah takes to the Northern abolitionist lecture circuit - among the first American women to speak in public on politics - until they are branded pariahs, forbidden ever to return to Charleston.