"Broken Promises" is a stage play based on the main characters from the novel "Breaking the Chain" written by Frankie Berry Wise. It centers on the Jackson family who are poor mulattoes struggling through many obstacles such as poverty, homosexuality, molestation, and murder. The main matriarch, Sarah Jackson, was abandoned by her white mother and given to a black family that abused her. Around the age of eleven, she was again ushered off to live with an older white man who fathered her four children-John, Cleo, Lilly, and Rose. Sarah is determined for her family to rise above the chains of...

"Broken Promises" is a stage play based on the main characters from the novel "Breaking the Chain" written by Frankie Berry Wise.

It centers on the Jackson family who are poor mulattoes struggling through many obstacles such as poverty, homosexuality, molestation, and murder.

The main matriarch, Sarah Jackson, was abandoned by her white mother and given to a black family that abused her. Around the age of eleven, she was again ushered off to live with an older white man who fathered her four children--John, Cleo, Lilly, and Rose.

Sarah is determined for her family to...

"Breaking the Chain" depicts the struggles of five mulatto women as they work through their relationships with each other and with the citizens of Crosstown, Georgia. This fictional novel focuses on the Jackson women and how they, as individuals and as a unit, deal with many of their problems-including racial prejudice, socioeconomic disadvantages, molestation, infidelity, and death. "Breaking the Chain" gives a vivid and descriptive glimpse into the lives of these women as they attempt to preserve the chain that binds them. "Breaking the Chain" has been adapted into a stage play entitled...