Chapter 5 continued

A Lady in Shining Armor

“Justice,” he’d said.

It was not the answer for the riot Victoria Harwood expected, for as a woman she’d long known she lived in a world of injustice, even if nothing made it as evident as the existence of slavery.  

She wasn’t sure when she’d first decided slavery was wrong, for her forebears had been prominent slaveholders, although her parents owned no…