Free at Last

ISBN-13: 9781483983288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 438 str.

Ernest Hamilton

Opis

In 1865, after a tearful session with his mother, Richard Harrison, a light-skinned sixteen year old freed slave, leaves the plantation in Marion County, Florida, instilled with the dream to sail the seven seas as a free man. Should he follow his mothers advice and pose as a white man, or stand tall and buck the prevailing headwinds? His trek through Florida history during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, provides him with a new perspective on life. He finally understands his mentor's words, "Freedom is . . . ."