Review: GREAT BOOK, BUT NOT FOR THE WEARY HEARTED!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT BOOKS THAT I'VE READ AND MANY A YEAR. JUST TO KNOW THAT THIS WAS PART OF OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE IS AN ASTOUNDING AND EMBARRASSING FACT OF OUR HISTORY. IT IS A SHAME THAT IT TOOK ME 57 YEARS BEFORE I WOULD PICK THIS BOOK UP TO READ IT BUT I'M SO THANKFUL THAT I DID, I FEEL LIKE I'M A BETTER PERSON FOR IT. MOST OF THOSE WHO USE THE TERM UNCLE TOM DO SO DEROGATORY FASHION THAT IS NOT UNCLE TOMS LEGACY NOT ACCORDING TO HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. THE CONTRIBUTION THROUGH THE BLACK CULTURE AND BLACK PEOPLE TO OUR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL THROUGH THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT IS BOTH ENLIGHTENING AND PROVIDENTIAL. I THANK YOU FOR OFFERING THIS TITLE AND ENCOURAGE ALL WHO WOULD WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH OF OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY TO READ IT FOR THEMSELVES NOT TO BE RACIALLY UNKIND TO ONE ANOTHER BUT TO REALIZE WE COULD LIVE THROUGH A CIVIL WAR AND THIS NATIONAL CAN AND STILL EXIST TO SUCH A GREAT CAPACITY AS WE DO.