Sulphur Springs

De: Fredrick Hudgin

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A novel about two women who settle in the Northwest. Washington State didn’t want the ex-slaves to come there from the South. This book showcases the racism present in Washington State in 1895. Black people couldn’t vote or own property. A very active chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was in Chehalis. The land the Cowlitz tribes had lived on for thousands of years was taken from them without compensation and given to the white settlers.

Duha (pronounced DooHa) is the daughter of a slave midwife. She and her mother are determined to escape the racism in Independence, Missouri, by migrating to Washington State in 1895. But her mother dies in Sheridan, Wyoming, leaving Duha with no money, job, or future beyond working in the brothels. She meets Georgia Prentice, a nurse in the hospital where her mother dies. Georgia takes her in, and together, they begin a life that spans sixty years and three generations.

They settle in the quiet, idyllic settlement of Sulphur Springs, Washington, nestled between three volcanoes—Mt Rainier, Mt Adams, and Mt St Helens. The beautiful fir-covered hills and crystal-clear rivers belie the evil growing there that threatens to swallow Duha’s and Georgia’s families. Three generations must join together as a psychotic rapist/murderer threatens to destroy everything they have worked and suffered to create.