Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground RailroadSimon and Schuster, 15. 2. 2005 - Počet stran: 288 Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together—and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property. In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and between slaves and free black folks. There is the fugitive slave from Virginia who spends seventeen years searching for his wife. A Georgia slave couple that sails for England with federal troops trailing behind. A white woman who falls in love with her deceased husband's slave. A young slave girl who is delivered to her fiancé inside a wooden chest. Acclaimed journalist Betty DeRamus gleaned these anecdotes from descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs, Civil War records, census data, magazines, and dozens of previously untapped sources. This is a book about people pursuing love and achievement in a time of hate and severely limited opportunities. Though not all of the stories in Forbidden Fruit end in triumph, they all celebrate hope, passion, courage, and triumph of the human spirit. |
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A Love Worth Waiting For | 15 |
The Special Delivery Package | 29 |
The Man Who Couldnt Grow a Beard | 41 |
Even a Blind Horse Knows the Way | 61 |
The Slave Who Knew His Name 7 | 77 |
Footprints in the Snow | 95 |
Chased by Wolves | 109 |
The Woman on John Littles Back | 125 |
Suspicious Lynchings Passing for White | 139 |
Hound Dogs Hate Red Pepper | 153 |
The Schoolteacher Had to Duck Dead Cats | 173 |
Guns and Pickles | 189 |
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Strana 243 - nigger trader" was loathed by everybody. He was regarded as a sort of human devil who bought and conveyed poor helpless creatures to hell — for to our whites and blacks alike the Southern plantation was simply hell; no milder name could describe it. If the threat to sell an incorrigible slave "down the river" would not reform him, nothing would — his case was past cure.