It's 1888 in Alabama, and Sarah Jane has witnessed anescape. An Apache boy has jumped off a train headed for an Indian reservation-and a life he doesn't want.
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the dark-thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.
