Abstract:
In 1955, America was experiencing a wave of racial turmoil spreading across the nation at a feverish pitch. The world watched as America appeared on the verge of racial civil war. It was a time when a Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation and white supremacy organizations captured newspaper headlines.
New York school teacher Regina Wilson’s life would take on a whole new perspective after the death of her father when she discovers her grandfather’s journal. Read as Regina follows his footsteps from the shores of Madagascar, as a chained captive aboard the vile slave ship, Gull, and during his long, hard, and yet peaceful life on the Stratham Plantation.