The Purchase

By: Linda Spalding

Narrated by: Robin Miles

In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family’s values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed, is shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children. He moves his shaken family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky border. Although determined to hold on to his Quaker ways, and despite his most dearly held belief that slavery is a sin, Daniel becomes the owner of a young boy named Onesimus, setting in motion a twisted chain of events that will lead to tragedy and murder, forever changing his children’s lives and driving the book to an unexpected conclusion.

©2012 Linda Spalding (P)2013 Recorded Books

It just ended.

I liked it and I would've given it 1more star but it just ended. Where's the rest of the story? What happened with Bry, Bet, and Mary? How did he lose control of his family like that?
I feel like this book was unfinished.