Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian, an absorbing family saga of Virginia slavery and the earthshaking rebellion led by Nat Turner.
This powerful history of Virginia slavery is grounded in the daily life of a struggling plantation, Tower Hill, owned by generations of a local merchant family. A persistent debt that is both commercial and emotional drives the Blows-husbands and wives, fathers and sons-to turmoil and madness. The enslaved Blacks at Tower Hill live at the behest and often ...