Phoebe Dolores Brown is the daughter of a Black healer and a white plantation owner, and she doesn’t feel like a slave at all: she is welcome in the master’s house, the owner’s sister teaches her literacy and music, and he promises to grant his daughter freedom once she turns eighteen. But the plantation owner’s vengeful wife sends her to a slave auction, and then Phoebe has to face the full horror of her situation. Beaten and humiliated, the girl ends up in Lapie Prison—a terrifying place where Black people are traded like livestock… And so begins the quiet war of Phoebe Brown: an invisible battle of a brave little woman against violence, abuse, and the stripping of human dignity that one group of people inflicts on another—against slavery.