This full-color historical graphic novel drops readers headlong into the conflicts and the characters of the American Civil War

In Fight for Freedom, a young slave named Sam escapes the plantation to search for his father, who's been conscripted into the Confederate army. Sam makes his way to a Northern city where his ability to read - which has always been forbidden - suddenly becomes his greatest asset. Meanwhile, Sam's friend Annabelle, the plantation owner's daughter, must help run the plantation when her father dies. And that's no easy matter when soldiers from both armies want to use the plantation for their own purposes! The two main characters' lives continue to intersect in surprising ways as the great dramas of the Civil War unfold on the page.