Marcia L. (Marcia) reviewed on 3/8/2006 + 378 more book reviews

this is the story of a family's roots, and the stories of four astonishing women who battled vast injustices to create a legacy of hope an achievement. They wree women whose lives began in slavery, who wethered the Civil War, and wh grappled with the contradictions of emancipation through the turbulent early years of the twentieth century. A book to make you live in the shoes of the people who were born into slavery, and their struggles to be free.

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