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I've put off reading this book for such a long time because I just didn't want to read another slave story. But this is far more than the life of slave women in the 1800's. This is a story surrounding the power, strength & courage of four women; the safe haven found in true friendships and ties that bind the afflicted. Most of the story takes place in free Ohio at Tawawa Resort where slavemasters vacationed in the summer with their slave mistresses, leaving their wives behind at home. What I found painstakingly profound was that these women vacationed in a free state and boarded the coach back to their enslaved southern states each summer. The love for their families, children & other slaves back home surely outweighed their temptation for freedom just beyond the resorts boundaries. | "...perhaps whites did not understand how it felt not to be able to go where one wanted to go, dress how one wanted to dress. They took simple things like movement for granted." ~ Lizzie

Historical Fact: Tawawa Resort opened in 1852 and closed in 1855. The land and the surrounding area was sold to the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
and it established the Ohio African University in 1856. Enrollment declined with the onset of the Civil War and the original campus closed. In 1863, the property was purchased by the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was renamed Wilberforce University.