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Neither Bond Nor Free: A Novel
Neither Bond Nor Free: A Novel
Neither Bond Nor Free: A Novel
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Neither Bond Nor Free draws heavily on real events and from the lives of historical figures to weave a tale of suffering and redemption in antebellum America. Across a violent landscape of virulent racial prejudice and hatred pitted against the aid and protection of free black communities and abolitionists of the Underground Railroad, self-emancipated refugees from the South's Peculiar Institution navigate their way north to freedom in Canada. One highly literate mulatto's escape from slavery intersects closely with the lives of free blacks and Quakers in a small Indiana community until the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 shatters his hopes but not his indomitable desire to be free. In his adventures and struggle to fully secure his freedom, he makes surprising discoveries about the nature of suffering and his own humanity.
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Release dateNov 15, 2019
ISBN9781532699948
Neither Bond Nor Free: A Novel
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Daniel B. Hinshaw

Daniel B. Hinshaw is a physician and emeritus professor in the University of Michigan Medical School. A direct descendant of Quakers who strove to assist freedom seekers in the antebellum period, the author was drawn to write this piece of historical fiction. He is the author of Suffering and the Nature of Healing (2013) and Touch and the Healing of the World (2017). Neither Bond Nor Free is his first work of fiction.

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