Review: A good historical fiction book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
This is a great story about a black slave man that claimed he lived until he was 132 years old.  The one thing that he wanted to do before he died was to get the 40 acres of land and a mule that was promised to his father for fighting in the civil war.  He spent most of his life trying to get the land that he would have inherited from his father.  He had approached several US Presidents and some powerful leaders in Washington DC  but no-one would help him.  The last person he had to approach was US President Ronald Reagan and explain once again that he wanted to inherit the land promised to his father.  He tells his life story as a slave until his death.  I enjoyed the story with lots of twist and turns.  The story line was good, well defined characters and well written.