Review: Eye opener!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
Wonderful story. Gave me more insight into the abuse of slavery of the times. This is not about the selling and abuse of the blacks primarily but the "under the table", illegal selling of white immigrants as slaves because if a person had as much as 1/32 black in their background they could be sold. The color of their skin mattered not. Without proof, and if they had it - it was destroyed) a white man could say they were black and sell them. The immigrants would come over here and be indentured servants for a period of time to repay their passage, etc. then given their freedom papers. They were called redemptioners. They were all nationalities but most were German. The author did a lot of research and whereas the book is fiction it is based on fact and factual characters and events.