{"product_id":"book-atfj","title":"The Freedom Maze","description":"Set against the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and then  just before the outbreak of the Civil War, The Freedom Maze explores  both political and personal liberation, and how the two intertwine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1960, thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending the summer  at her grandmother’s old house in the Bayou. But the house has a maze  Sophie can’t resist exploring once she finds it has a secretive and  mischievious inhabitant. \u003cbr\u003e When Sophie, bored and lonely, makes an impulsive wish, she slips back  one hundred years into the past, to the year 1860. She hopes for a  fantasy book adventure with herself as the heroine. Instead, she gets a  real adventure in the race-haunted world of her family’s Louisiana sugar  plantation in 1860, where she is mistaken for a slave.  \u003cbr\u003e President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is still two  years in the future. The Thirteen Amendment—abolishing and prohibiting  slavery—will not be not passed until April 1864. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Muddy and bedraggled, Sophie obviously isn’t a young lady of good breeding. She must therefore be a slave. And she is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Multilayered, compassionate and thought-provoking, a timely read on  the sesquicentennial of America’s Civil War.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred  Review) \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49337714868528,"sku":"BDatfj","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/97923-atfj-Square.jpg?v=1733975986","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-atfj","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}