Lydia's Story

The year is 1861. The place, New Orleans. For Lydia Lazarus, a privileged White girl nearly 15 years old, life is carefree and perfect with no sign things might ever change. But President Lincoln has just delivered his first inaugural address, rumblings over the future of slavery soon spark an attack on Fort Sumter, and the Civil War is begun. Her mother and father being kind to their one family of slaves, namely Priscilla and William Brown and their daughter Savannah, and seeing nothing wr...