Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My husband recently brought me a kindle and I had looked very hard for books pertaining to African American culture that were free. I must admit that I was thinking since the author was not African American there would be a sort of romanticism or sugar-coated theme with the relationship between the slaves and their owner but, this story proved to shed light on the truths of slavery. As someone who majored in history with a concentration on African American history, I must say this book was awesome. This book was very unbiased and was very factual in relating information on the society and communities in the south during slavery. The book "told it like it is" when it comes to the relationship between mammies and the children they were forced to suckle and raise. Many people do not realize how the slave woman had to put her owner's child ahead of her own. I also appreciated the happy but realistic ending. This book among many other stories of early American life is a must read.