The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America Binding:Hardcover a free woman of color

a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies

captured in real time

in other words

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856--a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces--when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives

d)    a murder mystery (of sorts)

The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America Binding:Hardcover a free woman of colorNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times From Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, a sermon in the public square on the issues that plague us most Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock is a transformational voice in Congress and the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr.s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and for the semiquincentennial of America, he exhorts us to reach for the highest and noblest aspects of our national character. Senator Warnock