Many Roads Traveled: Or, Twenty Years in Bondage
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indomitable Pleasant Lane, 1820 1905, a free, educated, black woman who was kidnapped and forced into bondage for twenty miserable years. She refused to concede to defeat even in despairing circumstances. Holding onto a family heirloom she managed to keep, she dared to fall in love midst hate and intrigue, and risked limb and life to help her people. Her lifes most glorious moment came when she had the opportunity to welcome the Union Army into the mansionthe liberators finally arrived. The author presents a writing that makes for compelling reading, and offers some newer insights based on real facts.
Tommie Morton-Young
Tommie Morton-Young is as genealogist and historian and largely writes in the domain of non-fiction with focuses on ethnic/social and family records and experiences, women’s issues, and ‘at-riskness’ of youth. This current writing is historical fiction, and is inspired by the ‘life and times’ of a real person, Pleasant Lane. Dr. Morton-Young was formerly a professor and dean at several universities, and presently owns and operates a heritage tour company, writes, and lectures.
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