Senachwine Crossing

Lycurgus (Surge) Sherwood has taken up his dead sister's torch in the battle against slave-power in antebellum Illinois. After a fiery sermon given by Massachusetts abolitionist Ichabod Codding turns into a free-for-all, Surge and his wife Rachael find themselves on the run, pursued by an angry mob. The hooded throng hounds the Wesleyan Sherwoods on a harrowing flight through both the physical and spiritual landscape of frontier Illinois.