Harriett was born a slave. Her mother was a black slave and her father a white plantation owner. After the civil war, when all the slaves had been freed by Abraham Lincoln, she traveled north to live in New York, where though her life was not easy, she was able to find work as a washerwoman. But it was a very difficult life and she was still treated very poorly, especially by the white women she often worked for. And then one day she placed an ad to become a mail order bride, hoping to change her life for the better.
I read a review copy of this book, and though it differs slightly from most mail order bride stories, it did retain the general plotline of a typical one. In this story, as a woman who was neither fully black nor fully white, Harriet had quite a few challenges to overcome. It was not common for white men to marry black women back at that point in history, and prejudice toward people of color was quite common, whether they were part white or not. But in true mail order bride fashion, you can expect Harriet to overcome the challenges and hardships set before her. And if you, like I do, enjoy happy endings (that may or may not have been realistic for this time period and setting), then you will likely enjoy this book.\
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