Children’s Book Review: Shackles from the Deep By Michael Cottman
SHACKLES FROM THE DEEP Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, A Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy By: Michael Cottman Published: January 3, 2017 Publisher: National Geographic Non-Fiction Avid scuba diver and journalist, Michael Cottman is sharing the remarkable discovery of a sunken ship that carried slaves to Europe and North/South America during…
Read More Book Review: The Kitchen House By Kathleen Grissom
THE KITCHEN HOUSE By: Kathleen Grissom Published: February 2, 2010 ***** When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while on board a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the…
Read More Book Review: Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
YELLOW CROCUS: A NOVEL By: Laila Ibrahim Published: December 17, 2010 ***** Mattie was never truly mine. That knowledge must have filled me as quickly and surely as the milk from her breasts. Although my family ‘owned’ her, although she occupied the center of my universe, her deepest affections lay elsewhere. So along with…
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