All We Were PromisedAll We Were Promised

When Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation, she'd expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. But even in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American liberty, she's locked away as a servant to her white-passing father as they both attempt to hide their identities from slave-catchers. Longing to break away, Charlotte befriends Nell, an abolitionist from a wealthy Black family. When Charlotte's friend from White Oaks, Evie, is brought to the city by the plantation's mistress, the pair conspire to free her. But amidst Philadelphia's race riots and attacks on abolitionists, they discover that fighting for Evie's freedom may cost them their own.