The film is based on the novels The Friendly Persuasion and Except for Me and Thee by Jessamyn West; the former novel was previously adapted in 1956.
Friendly Persuasion did not gain as big of an audience as ABC had hoped.
This film is not available on VHS or LaserDisc, and there are no plans of a DVD release.
In Civil War era America, a Quaker family, Jess and Eliza Birdwell, helps slaves who have run away, knowing that they could die.
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