Ever since seeing the Spielberg film, this has been a historical event that truly captured my attention and my heart.  It was on this date in 1839, that the wrongfully captured Africans overthrew the Amistad ship.  The slaves killed all of the crew with except for two individuals.  These two complied with turning the ship towards Africa during the day […]

I had never heard of this event in U.S. history, but on this date in 1712, the New York Slave Revolt occurred.  In the colonial days, New York had the highest amount of slaves–one in five were enslaved.  They were not plantation workers (as they were in the South), but they were skilled workers like carpenters, stone masons, and fishermen. […]

  Dead Running Cassidy Christensen is running. Running from the mercenaries who killed her parents. Running from a scheming redhead intent on making her life miserable. Running from painful memories that sabotage her dreams of happiness. With two very tempting men competing for her attention, she hopes she’ll finally have someone to run to, but can she trust either of […]

Summary (from goodreads): In book three of the “Freedom” series, the main character, Mara, finds herself the object of her uncle’s revenge. From a life sentence in prison, Uncle Jefe, who held her as a sex slave in his San Diego brothel, uses his underground connections to kidnap and drag Mara back into the dark shadows of human trafficking. Now […]