Local author Mary Anderson Parks shares her new novel Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom. Flight to Ohio begins in 1836, as 21-year-old Tom and his mother Nellie escape slavery on a Virginia plantation. They soon discover that Tom, the bastard son of the white master, passes as white when he is not seen with his mother. Tom must make a choice as to how to live.
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Local author Mary Anderson Parks shares her new novel Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom. Flight to Ohio begins in 1836, as 21-year-old Tom and his mother Nellie escape slavery on a Virginia plantation. They soon discover that Tom, the bastard son of the white master, passes as white when he is not seen with his mother. Tom must make a choice as to how to live.
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