Promise: The Moving Frontier

In 1821 in southwest Virginia a woman named Mattie married a complex man who was both a Methodist preacher, and a doctor. Abram was intelligent, restless, determined, deeply religious and a firm Southern abolitionist. Over the forty years that followed, Mattie made homes in seven different houses—mostly log cabins—in four states She raised nine children and moved continually westward, meeting the demands of his church. During those years, from age about forty to fifty-five, Abram returned t...