ASIN: B00JXI4Z10
Publisher: Jack Lourens Publishing
Pages: 352
The title gives our ending away. The book is the journey we make to arrive. Our journey starts in Africa with a young child, and her upbringing within a unique family. Atende learns the skills of her parents who serve as the Obeahmen and N'ganga of their tribe, the Shaman, but she also evidences behavioral traits that hint at some darker, something different, that lies deeper within. Captured and debased she is brought to Savannah to be sold as a slave. It is only the strength of her upbringing and her attitude to life that enables her to survive and, eventually, flourish. Her escape, where she risks all to free the cruelly treated slaves on the neighboring plantation leads to an unlikely alliance with the local Indian tribes and ignites the hope of freedom. Atende's escape causes her old mistress, the Methodist Emma Stannard, to question her views on slavery. Her soul-searching leads ...
