A Wishful Eye: A Novel

A Wishful Eye is a sweeping tale set in the United States during the antebellum years—when Christians took unpopular stands and engaged in illegal activity to care for the “least of these.”

In the years before the Civil War, abolitionists were considered radicals by the majority of Americans. When they couldn’t help the enslaved by persuading those in power to change the law, they broke it—risking all they had, including their own liberty, for the sake of others and working side by side wit...