![]() ![]() ![]() If only he didn’t have secrets that the new schoolteacher seems determined to uncover. He cannot forget the promise he made to his daughter’s mother as she died-that their child would learn to read and write. He must organize his fellow formerly enslaved citizens into a new town and raise his young daughter alone. On top of everything else, the schoolteacher lady has a will hard enough to match the iron he forges. Virgil Smithson, Milford’s mayor, blacksmith and sometimes preacher man with a gift for fiery oratory, doesn’t want anything to do with a snobby schoolteacher from up North. However, when she arrives, the mayor tells her to leave. She determines to start her teaching work with the formerly enslaved. Sorting through her father’s papers, she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. Instead, to fulfill a promise she made to her father, she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. ![]() Her father’s unscrupulous business partner offers her an indecent proposal to earn a living. 1866 – Oberlin, Ohio/ Milford, Georgia Devastated by her father’s death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world. ![]()
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