Robert F. Lackey
The Pulaski Saga, a historical novel series based in Havre de Grace, Maryland, that ranges to South Carolina and into the deeper antebellum south, chronicles the Pulaski family during the mid 1800s. Starting along the canal that reaches from the slave state of Maryland at Havre de Grace into the free state of Pennsylvania, the Pulaskis awaken to higher moral laws that begins their struggle against natural disasters, hateful enemies, and cruel laws. Working together to feed themselves, keep their self respect and grow their infant shipping business, Ben and Sonja become a husband and wife team stealing slaves and smuggling them north to freedom.