History Book Festival Featured Author Ashton Lattimore
SDARJ is pleased to be a Community Partner for the History Book Festival in Lewes. Ashton Lattimore will present her book, “All We Were Promised: A Novel,” at a free author event on Saturday, September 28, at 3:30 pm in the Large Meeting Room at Lewes Library. Read More.
About the book
All We Were Promised: A Novel
Ballantine Books, 2024
In 1837 Philadelphia, Charlotte is an escapee from the Southern plantation White Oaks, hiding from slave catchers by pretending to be a servant to her father, who passes for White. Longing to break away, she befriends Nell, a budding abolitionist from a wealthy Black family. When Evie, her friend from White Oaks, is brought to the city by the plantation mistress, Charlotte and Nell conspire to rescue her — but in a city engulfed by race riots and attacks on abolitionists, they soon discover that fighting for Evie’s freedom may cost them their own.
This event is presented in partnership with Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice (SDARJ).
About the author
Ashton Lattimore is an award-winning journalist and author. She is the former editor in chief at Prism, a nonprofit news outlet whose work centers on communities of color, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Slate, CNN, and ESSENCE. This is her first novel.
