Taina semi - Lindsi Fei

On a cold New York evening in the winter of 1846, in the police station, where Timothy Wilde, one of the most agile detectives of "copper stars", ran to death frightened young woman. Shaking with cold and fear, she said that her house had been robbed. Asked what had been stolen, she said: "My family." A stunned Timothy didn't immediately know what had happened. Only then, when he began the investigation, he learned what a profitable business in New York - to catch the slaves who fled from the South to the North and their descendants, undocumented about the liberation. And how dangerous it is to protect these unfortunates within the law, because the law itself does not consider them people, preferring to treat fugitives as a commodity. And where the goods - there are large profits, which are guarded by very large people ...