Band of Angels

Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.

Set in

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  Kentucky · United States

  antebellum plantation origins
  ★ primary
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  Louisiana · United States

  Post-Civil War chaos; Amantha flees and reunites with Rau-Ru
  ★ primary
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  Kansas · United States

  Amantha and Tobias Sears settle here after the war
  ★ primary
• New Orleans · United States

  Civil War era second setting