Rachel's Reviews > Twice Freed

This book weaves a fictional story around the slave Onesimus, his master Philemon, and the apostle Paul. It is crammed with wonderful historical details about live in the Roman Empire for slaves and free, for Christians and Jews and nonbelievers. I just ate all that historicity up with a spoon, I tell you.

While this book doesn't shy away from the cruel reality of slavery, it doesn't fixate on that either, but treats it in what I feel is age-appropriate for its middle-grade audience. I'll definitely be encouraging my kids to read this, and possibly even incorporating it into our world history curriculum.