Africa, Love (The New Africa Chronicles, 3)

By John W. Hatch

Heat and human passion inside Great Mississippi Swamp transform a wilderness into a community that names itself Africa. Rose and Cicero built their dream world only to have relatives move into the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970685416
• ISBN13: 9780970685414
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Secondsightbooks.Com
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Freedom wasn't free

'As the seasons changed, an infinite green morphed in athousand colors much like the trials and errors of a people imposing passed-down shards of Africa memory onto each and every day'-- John HatchAfrica Love, the sophomore offering to Hatch's Mississippi Swamp, is the continuing story of Rose and Cicero Morgan. Cicero learned politics in the Confederate President's family. Rose had been interned on the Davis Plantation by General Grant preceding the battle of Vicksburg. Both Rose and Cicero refused to become victims of the free enterprise's spin on freedom following the Civil War. Rose ran away from her owner seeking refuge in the swamp. Cicero, who had been elected to Mississippi's post-war government, moved into the swamp to join Rose.The 'Africanamericans' as they were called entered the swamp during the war, as an alternative to turning their lives over to someoneelse. Hatch offers an array of characters, as he brings to life the offsprings of Rose, Cicero, and Cicero's sister. He peppers the pages with some historical giants, Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglas. He also introduces many unknown people of color who helped create a magnanimous history. People like the election workers led by a Black sheriff named John Brown who pursued a sharecropper's boycott until insurrection strikes in a little-known piece of history which resulted in the Friars Point Massacre.Rose and Cicero renamed the swamp 'Africa', because they still clung desperately to customs from which they had been taken. And there is much controversy over the fact that this prime real estate is owned by the former slaves, and wanted by the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. The dwellers of the town, now being run by the off-springs, know that the birth of the railroad would certainly be the demise of their town. Africa Love, set in 1886, is an indepth account of life during and after the Civil War. This story shares some tragic and some enthralling events surrounding one of the darkest periods of American history. This book is an excellent cronicle of this particular era, weaving fiction and history in a profound way, as it amplifies the plight of people of color. This is must read for history buffs. Reviewed by aNN BrownThe RAWSISTAZ Reviewers