Photo Credit: Justine Stoddart One of the most interesting books I read last year was The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins. Frannie was enslaved in Jamaica and brought to London by John Langton, the man who owns her. Although slavery has been outlawed there, she's still not truly free. Langton gives Frannie to George Benham and his wife, Marguerite, as a gift. She works for the couple as a maid, and the gothic novel begins with her on trial for their murders. Fr