Tells the story of former U.S. Marine Jamie Summerlin's 100-day, 3,452-mile run across the country to honor wounded veterans, revealing the heartfelt stories of many heroes he met along the way.

In the 21st Century, two uneasy nations are at the brink of war. The Confederacy, having long given up slavery, shows the world how all men and women are brothers and sisters. In the embittered United States, however, men and women are joined only by the forces which dominate their lives - a hellish industrial state, controlling the population with the help of a Christian Fundamentalist television preacher, and the grim agents of the Industrial Protection Agency. But there is hope in the midst of chaos, an Underground Railroad taking workers from the North to the South. This is the story of one man's emotional and spiritual odyssey as he travels the danger-filled path to the Confederacy.

Take a journey to a time, and place that will forever change the way you think about slaves, and the institution of slavery. This is a realistic fiction, historically based story that will take you to a place that existed long ago. It is a story that will make you laugh, cry, it may even make you mad, but most of all, it will make you think. Think about all that has been gained, and lost, over a period of five hundred years. The Priests of Africa were given a plan for escaping slavery, long before becoming slaves. With the help, and strength of God, and their ancestors, they attempted an escape of monumental proportions that escaped the pages of history. Find out how these slaves refused slavery, and took up arms to free themselves. Manny, learns a story of a slave rebellion, and the Black Masonic Order that will change his life forever. A story that was long lost over time, through the perilous journey of slavery. He will realize that, despite his dysfunctional family, and lack of education, his life still had hope, and purpose. Take the journey down the Mississippi River, and never be the same again. The secrets that are entwined in this novel will blow your mind away. It will grip your emotions like nothing you ever read. This is not just a story, but an adventure through time. Enjoy and God Bless!

The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy’s explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial “Muleseeds” are bred. Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Lottermule knows there is only one way to escape. She must enter the annual Freedom Race as a runner. Ji-ji and her friends must exhume a survival story rooted in the collective memory of a kidnapped people and conjure the voices of the dead to light their way home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When Tommy Largent was five years old, he saw his father kill a man right before his eyes. If not for his mother's bravery and strength that night, they both would have surely perished as well. Now, six years later, Tommy isn't just bullied by the other kids in town, he's an outcast, branded forever from his father's crime. He seeks an escape in football, the game that he loves, and despite his short stature, was born to play. But his mother forbids him from playing, and even if she allowed it, the local coach won't even give him a tryout. So he resorts to playing in secret, tossing passes that only he can catch, and booting punts that will never be returned. But when he meets Flash Jackson, a local legend and former Pro ballplayer, he hatches a plan. Maybe if he could get Flash to coach him, to teach him the game, he could get good enough that the coach and even his mom would have to give him a chance to play. It won't be easy, Flash is now a recluse and hates the game that he once loved because it destroyed his body and broke his spirit. But even if Flash agrees to coach Tommy he will have to be more than his mentor; he will have to protect Tommy as well. You see Rick Largent has gotten a huge break and is now out of prison, and he has one thing on his mind, to finish what he started.

Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.

Running for Freedom, Fourth Edition, updates historian Steven Lawson’s classic volume detailing the history of African-American civil rights and black politics from the beginning of World War II to the present day. Offers comprehensive coverage of the African-American struggle for civil rights in the U.S. from 1941 to 2014 Integrates events relating to America’s civil rights story at both the local and national levels Features new material on Obama’s first term in office and the first year of his second term Includes addition of such timely issues as the Trayvon Martin case, the March on Washington 5oth anniversary, state voter suppression efforts, and Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act