Carla Ramsey Weeks, author of A Single Drop of Ink, revisits the antebellum era and the slaveholding Barret family in this new historical saga. In The Dark Side of Civil, Jude, both the son and the slave of Frederick Barret, fights the constraints of his oppression and longs for a life none of them thinks possible until his mother Minda is summoned to the house of abolitionist Bette Stiles, once a good friend to the master's deceased...