Type: Book Reading
Actor: Tracy Chevalier
Book: Excerpt from The Ghosts of Slavery
Event; World Book Night
Location: London, England
Year: 2011

American book lovers will gain an author’s perspective on how fiction can illuminate the moral choices of ordinary people. Tracy Chevalier’s reading connects British literary storytelling with the Underground Railroad, Quaker conscience and the unresolved legacy of slavery, drawing on her deep understanding of women’s lives, American history and the role of English Quakers in the abolitionist movement of 1850s Ohio.