Tempest Excerpt
"Enslavers lived with the assurance that they could keep slaves in bondage in perpetuity with impunity. Part of their methodology to keep the slaves subservient was to use psychological and physical deprivation and in many cases torture. These methods, the enslavers were certain, would crush the spirit. They did not know that although they had stolen the lives of slaves, they could not take the one thing that helped them endure: their indelible spirits." |
Ravens Excerpt
"I could feel a tingling and tightness in the skin from the stitches above my left eye. A growing ache in my brain replaced racing thoughts and musings cool as river stones that criss-crossed with thoughts hell-hot and prickly. That morning, a single, brutal blow to my head had brought the violent television world of Birmingham and Selma right into our front yard." |