Brought up in a mixed-race community in the forests of North Carolina in the mid-19th century, Rhoda is the first of her family to be able to read and her paren... » 

Brought up in a mixed-race community in the forests of North Carolina in the mid-19th century, Rhoda is the first of her family to be able to read and her parents have plans for her future. But then Rhoda falls in love with Henry. «