Jenny is Free: A Novel (Spinning Jenny)

The author of the highly praised novel "Spinning Jenny" returns with a sequel to continue the story of Jenny, Malachi, Cornelius, Esther, and the other vivid characters brought to life in "Spinning Jenny." January 1841. When Jenny Cornelius, seventeen years old, is freed from slavery by her master and put on a steamboat to go to free soil in Ohio, she can't foresee that it's a journey she will not complete. She encounters Walker Jackson, a free man from Natchez, and together they make decisions that will alter the course of their lives. Jenny's decisions ultimately take her to New Orleans, where she finds friendships and motherhood in the midst of loss. Cornelius Carson, her former master, unexpectedly inherits the Natchez estate called Carefree as well as a sugar cane plantation on Bayou Boeuf in Louisiana. The inheritance alters his destiny and that of his family, and ultimately the shadows of deceit and treachery hang over the estate, threatening Jenny's very freedom.