All Bones Be White

By (author) Judith G. Yates Shearer

Publication date:

29 June 2011

Length of book:

122 pages

Publisher

Hamilton Books

Dimensions:

233x157mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780761855491

All Bones Be White is the story of Cassy, a slave who was owned by a Revolutionary War hero. Cassy was tried for murdering her owner's youngest daughter, Phenaty. Gustavus A. Henry, a 29-year old lawyer distantly related to American patriot Patrick Henry, defended Cassy at her trial. Told in the second person, offering readers intrigue, murder, and redemption, the lives of three women-a slave, a murder victim, and the author as she discovers that her family had owned slaves-are woven together to reveal Cassy's story of what happened in 1833 America and why it still matters today.

All Bones Be White was nominated and accepted to be included on the book list for the Kentucky Society for the Daughters of the American Revolution.

For more information, please visit www.judyshearer.com.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Cassy Waits
Chapter 2: What Does Lie Beneath
Chapter 3: This County Named Christian
Chapter 4: Murder at a Well
Chapter 5: Riding a Death Wagon
Chapter 6: Afterwards

All Bones Be White is a profound story of two women, one black and one white, who find each other across time and circumstance. It's a book of healing and remembrance, a book that refuses to ignore the history below our feet and the human beings who gave their lives so that we might live. Like Shearer, we are drawn into Cassy's life, like Shearer we imagine how it could have been, how it should have been, and how we hope it may never be again.