{"product_id":"2940169059243","title":"The Freedom Maze","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet against the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and then  just before the outbreak of the Civil War, \u003ci\u003eThe Freedom Maze\u003c\/i\u003e explores  both political and personal liberation, and how the two intertwine.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1960, thirteen-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending the summer  at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou. But the house has a maze  Sophie can't resist exploring once she finds it has a secretive and  mischievious inhabitant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sophie, bored and lonely, makes an impulsive wish, she slips back  one hundred years into the past, to the year 1860. She hopes for a  fantasy book adventure with herself as the heroine. Instead, she gets a  real adventure in the race-haunted world of her family's Louisiana sugar  plantation in 1860, where she is mistaken for a slave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresident Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is still two  years in the future. The Thirteen Amendment-abolishing and prohibiting  slavery-will not be not passed until April 1864.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuddy and bedraggled, Sophie obviously isn't a young lady of good breeding. She must therefore be a slave. And she is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114039427312,"sku":"2940169059243","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169059243_p0.jpg?v=1769894016","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169059243","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}