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The Voyage Of Promise (2010)

by Kay Marshall Strom(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1426702124 (ISBN13: 9781426702129)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Abingdon Press

series

Grace in Africa

review 1: Grace Winslow's world is destroyed when slavers sneak into her village and carry her loved ones away in chains to Zulina. Grace is claimed by her former nemesis,Jasper Hathaway, as his own personal slave in order to humiliate her for her past treatment of him. Grace's husband and friends are loaded onto a slave ship heading first to the West Indies and then to America. Grace and Jasper board a ship heading for London. During the voyage, Grace has a chance to really read Mama Muco's Bible and claim the promises within. Once she reaches London, her driving force is to get back to the docks and find a ship to take her to America where she believes her husband is. In this book, we get a little of the controversy between the abolitionist and the rich and powerful who feel the a... morebolition of the slave trade is an affront to their way of life. They have concocted all kinds of lies about how well treated the slaves are on the transport ships and how their lives in slavery are so much better than their native lives in Africa. However, the unwashed masses in London aren't buying it anymore.
review 2: Book two of the Grace in Africa series takes the reader on a journey from Africa to England with a side trip to Charleston, North Carolina. Following the story of slavery from the perspective of an African woman, Grace Winslow,who is half-white in the late 1700s is intriguing as well as educational. As an American I was not familiar with the English attitude toward slavery. Although it is the second book in the series you can pick up the story and follow it easily thanks to flashbacks and conversations between characters. Kay has masterfully crafted believable characters and given the reader a real feel of time and place. less

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