Fiction by Susan Holloway Scott
The title of this book is interesting, and also it is pretty appropriate to the story. Aaron Burr, that infamous American revolutionary, did marry an enslaved woman and have two children with her who bore his name. But almost nothing is known about her.
Mary Emmons Burr was born around 1760 in India, came in childhood to America as a slave, and died a free black woman in 1835. What happened in between? This story is a fascinating novelization of a her life.
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