
Pastor Oliver shakes your hand warmly and invites you into the Church. “Welcome to Fettersville, my friend, your journey is almost complete. Tomorrow I have arranged to send you to a close friend of mine, a great supporter of our sister church, St Thomas, in Philadelphia. I warn you though, the travel will be uncomfortable and the method rather unusual. Dr Duterte has done what no other woman—white or black—has done in this nation: she has taken over her husband’s undertaking business. We will disguise you as a corpse and send you across the Delaware in a coffin. You must remain absolutely silent and move not a muscle until she collects you and has you safely inside the mortuary.