{"product_id":"on-free-ground-hardcover","title":"On Free Ground - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg McDonald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorth Carolina, 1839. When his mother dies, four-year-old Liam Gatlin, the plantation owner's son, is handed to Lily, the enslaved woman who runs the household, to raise beside her own son, Isaac. The two boys grow up sharing a cabin, a creek, and a schoolroomthough only one of them is allowed to learn there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsaac learns anyway, in a state where teaching him to read is a crime, and he keeps it hidden the way his mother taught him to hide everything. What neither boy can hide, as the years pass, is what grows between them: a love the plantation has no room for and the law has a name for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Liam goes north to study law in New Haven, Isaac goes with him-still, on paper, his property. In a free state that keeps its own cold distances, Isaac faces a question no enslaved man is allowed to answer: if he were free to leave, would he stay?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Free Ground is a story of two young men learning that the law can make a man free, but only he can decide what to do with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67972562780467,"sku":"9798997449223","price":46.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/4TR54BaOFh9798997449223.webp?v=1794430392","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/on-free-ground-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}