Characters
Alice’s husband attacks Rufus after Rufus assaults Alice. He later tries to escape with her.
Who is Isaac Jackson?
Despite objections from members of both families, Dana and Kevin decide to do this in Las Vegas.
What is get married?
To give Alice and Isaac more time to escape, Rufus agrees to claim that these people attacked him.
Who are white men or patrollers?
After Isaac and Alice are captured, this happens to Isaac before he is sold South.
What is he is beaten/mutilated and his ears are cut off?
Alice secretly finds these in Rufus’s bed chest and shows them to Dana, proving that Rufus lied about mailing them.
What are Dana’s letters to Kevin?
While telling Dana about her past, Sarah explains that the father of her oldest son was the father of this deceased woman.
Who is Miss Hannah?
After Dana and Kevin return from Las Vegas, Dana receives good news concerning one of her stories from this magazine.
What is The Atlantic / Atlantic Monthly?
When Dana reaches the Weylin plantation, she learns that Kevin has left the plantation and traveled in this direction.
What is North?
After Alice is captured and severely injured, this man purchases her.
Who is Rufus?
After discovering Rufus’s deception, Dana immediately attempts to do this.
What is run away / escape?
This enslaved woman works on the Weylin plantation and had been forced into a sexual relationship with Tom Weylin before Jake Edwards took control of her.
Who is Tess?
After returning to 1976 without Kevin, Dana prepares for another trip by packing supplies and studying this subject.
What is slavery / the history of slavery in America?
After the deaths of her sickly twins and her declining health, Margaret Weylin goes to this city to live with her sister.
What is Baltimore?
As Alice recovers and remembers what happened, she realizes that she is no longer legally this.
What is free?
After Dana is captured, Tom Weylin kicks her and later gives her this severe punishment.
What is a whipping?
Name both men: one is the nearby judge connected to the pursuit of Alice and Isaac; the other is Margaret’s cousin who serves as the Weylins’ cruel overseer.
Who are Judge Holman and Jake Edwards?
When Dana returns to the past, she sees this man beating Rufus almost unconscious.
Who is Isaac Jackson?
Dana learns that Tom Weylin has done this to Luke because Luke was too independent.
What is sold him?
During Alice’s recovery, Carrie gives birth to a son with this name.
Who is Jude?
When Kevin finally returns for Dana, approximately this much time has passed for him in the nineteenth century.
What is about five years?
This enslaved woman tells Tom Weylin about Dana’s escape attempt, leading to Dana’s capture.
Who is Liza?
Dana believes Rufus deserves the beating, yet she stops Isaac from killing him for two major reasons.
What are Rufus must live long enough to father Hagar, and Isaac would face severe or deadly punishment for killing a white man?
Rufus pressures Dana to destroy her history book and map because they could make people think she was this—or help her do this.
What is an abolitionist / escape?
Dana explains three terrible choices Alice has concerning Rufus. Name them.
What are go to Rufus willingly; refuse and face violence/rape; or try to run away?
In the final confrontation, Rufus does this, creating enough fear for Dana to return to 1976 with Kevin.
What is points/trains a rifle at Dana and Kevin?