A Complicated Legacy is a riveting tale of personal transformation and courage in facing the tide of sweeping social change. It is based on the true story of Elijah Willis, a white South Carolina planter who never married, but fell in love and had a family with Amy Turner, one of his slaves. Elijah Willis fought family opposition, public opinion, and the law to free his family of choice and leave them his entire inheritance. In so doing, his and Amy's story becomes a microcosm of the human struggles that made the Civil War and the Abolition of Slavery both necessary and inevitable. Taking...

This book was born out of a series of programs originally developed for a bi-lingual English-Spanish radio show, to engage people in exploring the phenomenon of paradigms- the models we have about the way things should be or work, and how they shape our experience. Paradigms are an inevitable part of life, so by examining some very pervasive specific paradigms, we want to understand better why we need them in the first place, how and why they influence us so pervasively, and how we can adjust them to our changing needs and circumstances.