Flags on the Bayou

In the fall of 1863,the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisianaincluding New Orleans and Baton Rougeis occupied. When Hannah Laveauan enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantationis accused of murdershe goes on the run with Florence Miltonan abolitionist schoolteacherdodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous