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Gallows Road - by Lisa Hall Brownell (Paperback)

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  • A beautiful young servant is condemned to death for a crime that she swears she did not commit.
  • Author(s): Lisa Hall Brownell
  • 280 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, General

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About the Book



In the 1750s, a beautiful young servant is seduced by her slave master and gives birth to a child who dies in infancy. She is put on trial and condemned to death for murdering the child, a crime she swears that she did not commit.



Book Synopsis



A beautiful young servant is condemned to death for a crime that she swears she did not commit. Inspired by true events in 1750s Connecticut, Gallows Road takes readers on a harrowing journey of love, betrayal, and injustice.

Chafing against the strict confines of her life as an indentured servant, Mercy Bramble finds herself in a destructive relationship with her master, leading to her pregnancy. The mysterious death of her newborn puts Mercy's life in the hands of a jury, while three clergymen fight to save her soul. Raising issues of patriarchy, literacy, religious dogmatism, and capital punishment, Gallows Road builds to a climax that Kirkus Reviews calls "a nail-biter all the way."

Indentured servants - white or Native American men and women who often worked alongside black slaves - were forbidden to marry during the seven years they were bonded to service. Illegitimate births were common, and unwed mothers faced heavy fines and extended servitude. Set in a multiracial household in colonial New England, Gallows Roadsheds light on an often-forgotten chapter in America's past.



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Traversing the same rocky footpaths as Nathaniel Hawthorne's quintessential New England novel, The Scarlet Letter, Lisa Hall Brownell's Gallows Road tells an early 18th-century story of love, sex, heartache, and hypocrisy. Yet Brownell's Mercy Bramble is no opaque and respectful Hester Prynne. Mercy is a feisty, unschooled, and outspoken heroine who challenges the morals and mores of the staid, self-satisfied community that seeks to victimize her. I felt a near-magnetic pull into the pages of this humane, character-driven novel. I suspect you will, too."

- Wally Lamb, author of six N.Y. Times bestselling novels including I Know This Much Is True and She's Come Undone


Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)
Weight: .79 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: General
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 280
Publisher: ELM Grove Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Lisa Hall Brownell
Language: English
Street Date: April 2, 2022
TCIN: 89773314
UPC: 9781940863160
Item Number (DPCI): 247-39-3459
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.63 inches length x 5.5 inches width x 8.5 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.79 pounds
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