The Emancipation of Kat Turner

Kat is not human. She is property. On a plantation in Sabine Parish, Robert Barnum is infatuated with Kat Turner, his uncle's fifteen-year-
old slave; an infatuation considered taboo throughout the South. To outwit the law, he hatches a plan to steal Kat and flee to Mexico, where they can both be free to wed. But Robert never saw coming his cousin's betrayal or the war that will eventually force him to abandon his pregnant bride. The Emancipation of Kat Turner is a tale of longing, hope, bet...