The Entailed Hat

A sprawling historical novel of the old Delmarva country, drawing on the notorious kidnapping trade that preyed on free Black people along the border between slave and free states in early America.

At a glance Along the low, tidewater neck of land where the mid-Atlantic states meet, a dark traffic… What it's about Set in the Delmarva peninsula of the earlier nineteenth century, the… Around this grim historical reality the author builds a broad narrative of families… Themes The book turns on greed and conscience, on the porous and corruptible border…

Set in the Delmarva peninsula of the earlier nineteenth century, the novel weaves a large cast of characters through a landscape shadowed by the kidnapping of free Black people into slavery, one of the era's ugliest…