Honor Bright, having been jilted by her fiancée, accompanies her sister to America, where she is to be married. It was a difficult voyage; she was ill for the entire trip, and knows she can never go back to England again. Her sister catches yellow fever and dies before they reach Ohio, where she is to be married. Honor stays with her sister's fiancée until she meets and marries Jack Haymaker.This being 1850, and Honor being a Quaker, she becomes involved in helping runaway slaves, despite her husband's (and his family's) objections. They order her to stop hiding slaves, even threatening to take her baby away and disown her. Yet Honor must remain true to her "inner light".
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