Eleven year old Harriet Whitehead is an outsider in her own family. She feels accepted and important only when she is entrusted to write letters for her blind stepmother. Then Nat Turner, a slave preacher, arrives on her family's plantation and Harriet befriends him, entranced by his gentle manner and eloquent sermons about an all-forgiving God. When Nat asks Harriet for a map of the county to help him spread the word, she draws it for him - wanting to be part of something important. But the map turns out to be the missing piece that sets Nat's secret plan in motion and makes Harriet an unwitting accomplice to the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history.
- ISBN13 9780152064020
- Publish Date 1 November 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harcourt Children's Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English