Runaway Slave

Book Two in a trilogy preceded by Black Brute and followed by Slave's Revenge. Author's Note--- The events in this novel and in Black Brute, the book to which this is a continuation, are based upon the authentic diaries and plantation journals of a young slave owner who lived in South Carolina near Charleston at the time in which this story is set. Some of his experiences are rather shocking by today's standards, but nonetheless they are portrayed exactly as he wrote them down, though they have been fictionalized. It is most important for the modern reader to understand that history reveals that the mores and morals and social lives of the slave masters of the antebellum South were quite different from those of free men today. In order to show life as it really was, nothing was omitted, even the most sordid facts and experiences which this young man recorded; all has been presented with exacting care in every detail wherever possible. Of course, the names have been changed in order to shield those descendants who are still living today--but it was from one of these individuals, whose great-great-great grandfather was the writer of those diaries, that the major portion of this sometimes bizarre story has been taken. The facts taken from the diaries speak for themselves: this is the way it happened.


Genre: Historical