{"product_id":"original-sins-a-novel-of-slavery-freedom-0393350037","title":"Original Sins: A Novel of Slavery \u0026 Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393350037\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kingman, Peg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy would a runaway Virginia slave-having built a rewarding life in the East Indies as a silk merchant-risk everything by returning to America in 1840, eighteen years after taking her freedom? Anibaddh Lyngdoh claims that she intends to introduce a new kind of silk to the floundering American silk industry. But her true reason, as her old friend Grace MacDonald Pollocke discovers, is far more personal. Grace, now a Philadelphia portrait painter, undertakes a perilous investigation that leads to the discovery of old sins and crimes, and the commission of new ones. What laws may be broken-what sins and crimes committed-in the service of a higher justice? Deceit, forgery, fraud, perjury . . . even murder?This novel thrillingly evokes a nineteenth-century America not so different from the present: a time of stunning new technologies and financial collapse, when religious and racial views collided with avowed principles of morality and law.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855753380128,"sku":"NEW0393350037","price":35.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61UFM0Dh6OL.jpg?v=1781540814","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/original-sins-a-novel-of-slavery-freedom-0393350037","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}