Connie Rose Porter

After the Civil War ends, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the futre may hold both happiness and heartache.

Trying to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia after having been a slave, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend.

During the holiday season, Addy and Momma are generous with the little money they've saved - and thrilled by a great surprise.

After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.

Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War.