Freedom Dues

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Pub Date 31 Jan 2020 | Archive Date 30 May 2022
Spinning a Yarn Press | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

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Recipient of the Gold 2021 Benjamin Franklin IBPA Award, Historical Fiction category.

In this sweeping debut historical novel set in Colonial America, two young indentured servants yearn to be free—to live and to love…

1729: Blair Eakins is a fifteen-year-old Ulster-Scot living in Ireland under the crushing weight of famine, poverty, and prejudice against his people. In search of a better future for himself and his beloved, he pays for passage to the American colonies the only way he can: he commits himself as an indentured servant for a term of four years, having no idea what he's in for. His rough ocean crossing is only the beginning of a new life of hardships in Philadelphia.

In London, ten-year-old orphan pickpocket Mallie Ambrose is arrested for stealing a handkerchief. After experiencing the horror of Newgate prison, she is sentenced to "Transportation," bound into indentured servitude and exiled to the American colonies. Once in Maryland, she is sold to a tyrannical tobacco planter for seven years.

As Blair and Mallie each endure hellish conditions, their paths eventually cross when they are acquired by the same owner. After Blair steps in to defend Mallie from their cruel master, the two escape and head west, finding unlikely allies among the Delaware Indians. But as fugitives without rights, they live in constant fear of capture.

Indra Zuno vividly portrays the terror and injustice of indentured servitude in pre-Revolutionary War America while championing the indomitable spirits of two strong survivors who struggle against monumental odds to find the freedom to love each other and control their own destiny.

Recipient of the Gold 2021 Benjamin Franklin IBPA Award, Historical Fiction category.

In this sweeping debut historical novel set in Colonial America, two young indentured servants yearn to be free—to...


A Note From the Publisher

Hardback: 9781734165227


Ebook: 9781734165203


Audiobook: 9780578595030

Hardback: 9781734165227


Ebook: 9781734165203


Audiobook: 9780578595030


Advance Praise

"An accomplished and stirring tale from a promising new author of historical fiction."
Kirkus

"...this well-crafted blend of research, characterization, and moving story progression should appeal to those drawn to entertaining, believable, historical fiction."
—Blueink

"An accomplished and stirring tale from a promising new author of historical fiction."
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"...this well-crafted blend of research, characterization, and moving story progression should appeal to...


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