All We Were Promised: A Novel

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A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia—&“a gripping novel about standing up to impossible odds&” (People, Best New Books)The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Together, they will risk everything for one another in this &“beguiling story of friendship, deception, and women crossing boundaries in the name of freedom&” (Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends).BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, She ReadsPhiladelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she&’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After all, Philadelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American liberty. Instead, she&’s locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, as they both attempt to hide their identities from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives.Longing to break away, Charlotte befriends Nell, a budding abolitionist from one of Philadelphia&’s wealthiest Black families. Just as Charlotte starts to envision a future, a familiar face from her past reappears: Evie, her friend from White Oaks, has been brought to the city by the plantation mistress, and she&’s desperate to escape. But as Charlotte and Nell conspire to rescue her, in a city engulfed by race riots and attacks on abolitionists, they soon discover that fighting for Evie&’s freedom may cost them their own.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
384 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593600160
Related ISBNs:
9780593600177, 9780593600153, 9780593822661, 9780593822678, 9780593861820
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Ashton Lattimore
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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