A Sharecroppers Story, A Dream to Own a Piece of Land. The Story of Madea (The Sweet Alabama Rose)


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This is a story based on true events surrounding the life and times of Elizabeth Jane Jones Davis, known to many as Madea. This story tells of the struggles of the black man living down on the countryside of southern Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s, refusing to depend solely on the privileges allowed by some white landowners. When the black man failed to meet the demands of some white men, the acts of slavery were reignited all over again. This was an act that some white men seemed to remembe




America A Dreamland, The Footsteps of Freedom - An Immigrant Story


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The writer brings to his reading audiences a bold new view on immigration struggles, survival, and endeavors. He unveils the light on footsteps of freedom in America, from an immigrant's perspective. This is a gripping tale of survival based on a series of real life happenings. This story reveals the anatomy of immigration is just as complex as the exploration of America centuries ago. Smuggling immigrants across the border becomes a hard-hitting tale of surviving the trip and the struggle for f




Passage through Darkness


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Big Percy Jones was born in the South and raised in a racist society. He loses a family member to racist violence. Being an African American sheriff officer, Percy finds it hard to imagine that the reality of racism still affects the black man in contemporary America. Percy makes important decisions as the leader of the Jones family. He knows he must make a moral decision centered on the death of a family member.




America A Dreamland


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The writer brings to his reading audiences a bold new view on immigration struggles, survival, and endeavors. He unveils the light on footsteps of freedom in America, from an immigrant’s perspective. This is a gripping tale of survival based on a series of real life happenings. This story reveals the anatomy of immigration is just as complex as the exploration of America centuries ago. Smuggling immigrants across the border becomes a hard-hitting tale of surviving the trip and the struggle for freedom. The story encounters a mix of true-life events with imaginary thoughts of violence. This is a story of gangsters and how criminals conduct a life watch on the smuggled immigrants once they arrive, continuing to stalk them to collect money. This is a story of the spectacular love and care of an aging adoptedsenior family member. This is a story of impossible survival when the immigrants don’t pay their Life Insurance (insurance that preserves their lives). America A Dreamland The Footsteps of Freedom, An Immigrant Story is truly a heart catching story of love and dedication.




The Slave Lover


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When NYPD agent Dajahn Rocmah, along with partner Delfori Bagans, receives a distress-call assistance from 911 one rainy Thursday night, little did he know that he would be led to a woman that was like no other he’d met. Except for the fact that Princess Martins Marelli was involved in a domestic argument with her wealthy estranged husband, she seemed to be your typical bombshell blonde—or so Rocmah thought. Princess is in fact anything but vanilla. She comes from a rich ancestry that began on a farm in Georgia between the white farm owner’s son, Luther Martins II, and a black slave girl named Tamalu, Luther Junior’s friend from childhood. The Slave Lover (Chocolate in the Milk) is a unique love story that spans races and generations, from the Civil War to present-day New York City. It follows the struggles and successes of the Martins family amid their interracial backdrop and the pains and pleasures that go along with it.




Sharecroppers


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Author Doug Williams's "Life of a Sharecropper's Son" is a true rags to riches story of a life torn with tragedy and buttressed with hope. Williams shares with brutal honesty the life accounts of a sharecropper's son, from anecdotes about childhood on the farm through World War II and beyond. Join this sharecropper's son as he plumbs the depths of family heartache and finds hope in his eternal Creator. This is a fascinating story of life in the southern section of our country. It is a part of our history I had never known. I found the book very hard to put down before I had finished reading it all. - Margaret Aston, Princeton, New Jersey




Rose at Rocky Ridge


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When Rose Wilder and her parents arrive in Missouri, they must work hard to make a rundown farm into their own home.




Of Time N' Places


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"Of Time n’ Places, the non-fiction book by renowned international folk artist Jessie Lavon is the story of her mother, Geneva “Noonie” Yelverton. Noonie was born of Poarch Creek Indian descent in Forkland, Alabama and was a sharecropper’s daughter. She picked cotton by hand for 30 years. In addition to these remembrances of Noonie’s life, the book includes unique family recipes from 1885 to 1974. It also features survival skills handed down for seven generations in her family, as well as family techniques for gardening with heirloom seeds, and techniques and recipes for canning. The book also includes modern day prepping and basic survival skills. As part of Noonie’s Native American heritage, the book includes the one of a kind account of the snake tree ritual preformed by Noonie’s family for generations, which has never before been recorded." --




Osceola


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A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.




Stairstep Farm


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Depicts the life of a youngster of Polish decent growing up on a farm with many lively brothers and sisters and loving parents.