From Sarah Collins 1749 A place of spiritual power at the meeting of waters. Crossing the Patowmack.

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God has established the Allegheny Mountains from the foundation of the world that they might one day be a refuge for fugitive slaves. -John Brown

The following afternoon, Kweku heard the waters of the Patowmack before he saw them. Walking out of the woods near the point where the two rivers flowed together, he looked in wonderment at the steep

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This is the augmented end of Chapter 1. I went back and added a few more paragraphs. Please bear with me as I produce the text in a nonlinear process. I know the timeline of my posts here has been skipping around a lot. But I just write what I think of when I think of it, and I have a mental picture of the overall narrative flow, so I keep going back and filling in gaps left in earlier chapters. Everything is getting fitted into place chronologically, even though it wasn't written in that order.