Pre-Owned Langhorn & Mary: A 19th Century American Love Story (Hardcover) 0972751904 9780972751902

Langhorn and Mary: A 19th Century American Love Story is a rich, powerful and intriguing true story of Langhorn, an African-American man and Mary, a German-American woman. Both born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania twenty miles from Philadelphia, common working folks, inextricably caught in the maelstrom of significant events and issues of the day - slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, prejudice, racism, and the Civil War. Filled with all the romance, adventure, trials and triumphs of the times, blended with a tale of love and marriage that was condemned by the majority, and the inevitable clash between two societies, North and South, that would bring war, death, and freedom to the United States. Author Priscilla Stone Sharp, the great, great grand niece of Langhorn and Mary, has intricately woven this true story of a remarkable couple, bound by love - one black, one white - with the historic mosaic that captures the sounds and fury of early and middle nineteenth century America. Her exploration into her family's roots uncovered this extraordinary Americana tale of love, survival, life and death, African and European Americans, in pre-and post Civil War America. After thirty years of marriage, and following Mary's death, Langhorn's life comes to an intense climax with his arrest and trial that charge him with murdering her. Ms. Sharp's vivid descriptions bring you into Bucks County, the eye of the storm, twenty miles from Philadelphia, from the day-to-day incidents of simple farm life in the 19th Century to an America that will either find its true destiny or lose its soul.