My Heart is on the Ground by Ann Rinaldi

She is Lady Washington’s closest confidante and, for all intents and purposes, a member of the family or so she thinks. When she rises to the position of personal servant to Martha Washington, her status among the household staff black and white is second to none. She is a servant and a house servant at that, a position of influence and respect on the plantation of Mount Vernon.

As part of the staff of George and Martha Washington, she isn’t referred to as a slave. The only life Oney Judge has ever known is servitude. When I was four and my daddy left, I cried, but I understood. When Caroline and Miz Melindy take a long wagon journey together in an attempt to save Johnny, the young hero*ine at last comes to terms with the complexity and tumult of her life. In fact, her grandmother, Miz Melindy, still lives in the slave quarters. To further complicate matters, although her family chooses to ignore it, Caroline knows that she is the result of her father’s dalliance with one of his black slaves. Fourteen year old Caroline is caught in the violent web of war her Patriot father is imprisoned, her Loyalist brother Johnny is wounded, her best friend is hanged by the British before her eyes, and her sister is fast becoming the doxy of the cruel British officer who has commandeered their house. In Cast Two Shadows, Rinaldi uses the compelling young character Caroline Whitaker to reveal how the Revolutionary War affects life on a South Carolina plantation in 1780. com Review /Source Content Ann Rinaldi’s historical novels frequently illustrate the destruction of war through the eyes of the girls and women involved as spectators, victims, and reluctant participants.

Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. On a trip that turns Caroline’s already tumultuous world upside down and forces her to question all that she holds dear. Her black grandmother, a slave on the plantation, accompanies her… Caroline receives permission from Rawdon to fetch Johnny, but she is not to make this journey alone. Caroline soon learns that Johnny is injured and needs her help to get home. Caroline Whitaker’s father is in prison for refusing to pledge allegiance to the king her brother, Johnny, is away fighting for the Loyalists and she, her mother, and her sister are confined to an upstairs chamber as British colonel Lord Francis Rawdon occupies their spacious plantation house. It’s 1780, and war has come to Camden, South Carolina. The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce (2000).Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (1996).

My Heart is on the Ground by Ann Rinaldi