Tag: slavery

Three Things I Learned Writing My Book

Reflections on “The Third Life of Grange Copeland” by Alice Walker

My thoughts after reading this moving novel which I should have read a LONG time ago.

This Land is My Land

John and Abby are newly freed and now live on the land that their family has worked for generations. The Emancipation Proclamation isn’t all that’s it’s cracked up to be. Will John and Abby fight for what is rightfully theirs? One thing’s for sure: freedom isn’t free.