Through exhaustive research, interviews, and the help of professional geneologists, successful corporate vice president Latilda Tademy takes readers on a fictional journey through her family's history, creating a vivid account of what life was like for the four remarkable African-American women befo[...]

The lives of three generations of two African-American families intertwine in the tumultuous and bloody aftermath of the Civil War as newly freed slaves fight for their individual liberties as they struggle to build new lives in The Bottom, a poor settlement just down Red River from Colfax, Louisian[...]