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The Ledger
A freedman named Elijah Cross finds a leather-bound ledger in the red clay of the Natchez Trace — a book containing 412 souls still bound as property in ink.
When his mother's ghost appears, Elijah learns that freeing the dead will require him to read every name aloud.
A Reconstruction ghost story about the language of ownership, and what it takes to unmake it.
205 pages · 5.5" x 8.5" · Also available as an instant e-book and a narrated audiobook.
Adapted from The Ledger, free to watch in full.
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A moment the show never had room for.
That night he took the ledger out from under his shirts at the bottom of it and looked at it for a while by the light of a stub of candle, and put it back, and did not open it.
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Audiobook — first listen
Ninety seconds of the opening of Chapter One, “The Road Walking Him”, in the narrator's voice.
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