by Leonard Pitts Jr.
It is the end of the American civil war and slavery had just been abolished. People were jubilantly dancing in the streets of America. An era came to an end. Although it was one of the purposes of the war to establish freedom for everyone, nobody really seemed to grasp the real meaning of the conce...
Such a wonderful thought-provoking book
Too often people assume that when a war ends the trouble stops, the problems are over. That is far from true. It took over a century to begin to fix the Civil Rights problem that was supposedly resolved with the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865! This book is an excellent study on what life was li...
Very fine storytelling. Freeman is a gripping tale of the post-civil war south from a point of view too often overlooked - that of the newly freed slaves. Recommended..