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Forbidden Super fruit is a collection of fascinating, basically untold tales of ordinary women and men who encountered mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together -- and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.
Here you'll meet, among other incredible character types, a fugitive slave from Virginia who spends seventeen years searching for his better half. A Georgia slave couple that sails for England with federal troops trailing behind. A white woman who falls deeply in love with her deceased husband's slave. A young slave girl who's delivered to her fiancé inside a wooden torso.
Acclaimed journalist Betty DeRamus gleaned these anecdotes from descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs, Civil Conflict records, census data, journals, and a large number of previously untapped resources. That is a book about people pursuing love and achievement in a time of hate and seriously limited opportunities. Though not all of the reviews in Forbidden Super fruit end in triumph, each of them celebrate hope, enthusiasm, courage, and triumph of the individual spirit.
