Hello my lovely readers! This has been on my shelf for a while and I'm glad I finally picked it up! Let's get into it.
SYNOPSIS
Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced 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 extraordinary characters, a fugitive slave from Virginia who spends seventeen years searching for his wife. A Georgia slave couple that sails for England with federal troops trailing behind. A white woman who falls in love with her deceased husband's slave. A young slave girl who is delivered to her fianc inside a wooden chest.
Acclaimed journalist Betty DeRamus gleaned these anecdotes from descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs, Civil War records, census data, magazines, and dozens of previously untapped sources. This is a book about people pursuing love and achievement in a time of hate and severely limited opportunities. Though not all of the stories in Forbidden Fruit end in triumph, they all celebrate hope, passion, courage, and triumph of the human spirit.
MY THOUGHTS
Love, love, love.
To me, love is never the grand displays of roses, expensive trips, diamonds etc. It's the simple every day moments...packing lunch, a kiss on the forehead every morning before leaving for work, a plate of food in the microwave.
But real love is 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. Love is patient, love is kind, it doesn't brag nor boast. It doesn't isn't self-seeking or easily angered. Love rejoices in truth. Love endures. Love never fails.
And that's what these stories show throughout this book...the purest form of love and what it had to endure and how it persevered. The writing was a bit clunky and not all stories of escaping to freedom ended successfully, but these folks tried their best and it was tragic but beautiful.
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