Bibliograph

Comfort, a novel of the reverse Underground Railroad, H.A. Maxxon and Claudia H. Young

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Comfort, a novel of the reverse Underground Railroad, H.A. Maxxon and Claudia H. Young

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Comfort

Oclc number

881448121

Responsibility statement

H.A. Maxxon and Claudia H. Young

Sub title

a novel of the reverse Underground Railroad

Summary

Comfort is a talented young seamstress who has worked to buy her freedom from slavery from her benevolent owner, an Irish immigrant and former indentured servant. Her husband, Cuff, is an unwise, irresponsible and weak man who sells his wife to pay his gambling debt. When Comfort falls into the hands of the reprehensible dealer of human flesh Joe Johnson, she is sold south to Virginia to a cruel master and poor manager

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