At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters -- Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst -- come into their own as independent young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons. North Carolina, 1863. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. This is where the March family has finally...

Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before -- the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.