JOSIAH WASHINGTON, a sixteen-year-old former slave, longs to experience the true meaning of freedom in 1870's Philadelphia. An act of kindness sets Josiah at odds with ADAM VESTRY, the seventeen-year-old son of an influential white newspaperman who is secretly plotting to bring the Ku Klux Klan into the North.Deeply hurt and frustrated by the cruel injustices he has suffered, Josiah is unwittingly drawn into the newspaperman's ruthless schemes. Upon...