Although having lived in Virginia for the majority of her twenty one years, Miss Vivienne Whitford will never consider herself a Southerner-not while slavery is still in existence. Determined to free her best friend from the vile institution, the independent Vivienne believes that she has finally hit upon the perfect plan. And it concerns her very little that she will have to use Mr. Andrew Bentley to accomplish her aim; for who is the man that she cannot persuade as she chooses? Traveling north to Pennsylvania under the guise of furthering her relationship with the enterprising Andrew,...