Act I: The Scribe
Isaiah Jefferson was forty-five years old when the Judge passed the Order, and he was the only Black man in Harmony County who could read and write. Not because he was smarter than anyone else—Isaiah was nothing special—but because his grandmother, who'd been enslaved on the Jefferson plantation (no relation to Isaiah, just a cruel coincidence of surnames), had taught him to read by...
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