At the end of the war, Britt Johnson, a freed slave, travels with his family from Kentucky to start a new life in Texas.

Hungry for learning, Lizzie and her brother Paul attend a new school built for freed slaves.

Newly freed slaves in the days of Reconstruction following the Civil War.

"By day, impoverished Southern belle Joelle Daughtry helps her sisters turn the rundown family plantation into a resort hotel. By night, under a male pseudonym, she pens articles in support of opening a school for former slaves. With the Ku Klux Klan gaining power, Joelle is playing a dangerous game. Then childhood enemy, and investor in the Daughtry house, Schuyler Beaumont takes over his assassinated father's candidacy for state office. To protect...

One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen-year-old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.

Three years after Civil War, Lisbeth Johnson, born into wealth and privilege, is summoned back to the Virginia plantation of her childhood where she must face the Confederate family she betrayed by marrying an abolitionist and reconcile with those she left behind.