Condemned for Love in Old Virginia Juvenile Nonfiction African American & Black Books & Libraries Biography & Autobiography - Cultural & Regional Shai discovers that making a

Shai discovers that making a new friend is sometimes like putting on a show—it requires dedication

as sacred as it is historical

caring for it teaches her to feel her grandfather’s love

and never before done

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Condemned for Love in Old Virginia Juvenile Nonfiction African American & Black Books & Libraries Biography & Autobiography - Cultural & Regional Shai discovers that making aWhen romance was met with murder Arthur Jordan and Elvira Corder were young and unafraid, but their love was doomed. He was black, she was white, and this was Virginia in 1880. When Elvira became pregnant, the couple fled Fauquier County to live in Maryland. But her father found them and recruited neighbors to help kidnap them. Four nights later, a mob dragged Arthur from the county jail in Warrenton and lynched him. Elvira, taken to a hotel in