About White Man’s Graveyard by Sarah Angleton
Annie is a no-nonsense Pennsylvania teacher whose hunt for a home and family of her own inspires a commitment to the abolition movement. Sylvanus, the baby brother she helped raise, is an adventure-seeking physician who finds purpose on his way to Western Africa in support of the controversial colonization effort which seeks to establish a safe-haven for former US slaves in the colony of Liberia.
In the decades leading up to the American Civil War, the siblings find themselves on opposite sides of a monumental political argument as wide and complex as the ocean that separates them. Each must question what it means to fight for freedom and determine whether political and moral convictions are enough to sever the strongest of family bonds.
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Author Bio:
Sarah Angleton discovered a diary written in the 1830s hidden beneath the false bottom of a drawer in an heirloom lawyer cabinet among her grandmother’s possessions. It led her to write this book. She is also the author of two historical thrillers, Gentleman of Misfortune and Smoke Rose to Heaven, and she is the writer behind the Practical Historian humor blog and the essay collection Launching Sheep & Other Stories at the Intersection of History and Nonsense. She lives near St. Louis with her husband, two sons, and one very loyal dog.
While Sarah Angleton’s purpose in writing White Man’s Graveyard was probably not quite this, she nevertheless called me out about my own sometimes schizophrenic values, principles, and beliefs – and life priorities. She had me taking ‘sides’ – both sides – often at the same time! Taking sides about what ‘being right’ vs. ‘what IS right’ means. As someone who spent many years, working in the church in Apartheid South Africa, finding the balance between survival, fighting injustice, and helping people find life purpose and meaning, Sarah has wonderfully, and even painfully, revived in me passions about discovering integrity and human worth – and what is worth fighting for. I love what this book did for me and to me. It is charged with relevance for today’s socio-politically divided hearts and minds. A brilliant, timely read.
Very good story & based on truth. Well written by author Sarah Angleton. As a Goheen descendant, I’m proud to be from this family.I believe Sarah captured qualities of our family. I know her Aunt Pat Goheen is extremely proud of this book of Sarah’s.