... The novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that Presiden Lincoln half-jokingly greeted Stowe as 'the little lady' who started the great Civil War. ...
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but…