the Terrible Past

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	• The Sacred Place Daniel Black St. Martin's Press, 2007 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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the Terrible Past

The setting of this book is rural Mississippi in the fifties. We can feel the heat, see the dust, sense the simmering racial tension.

This book paints a picture of America that we pray is no more. It is not a pretty picture. Yet the book ends on a note of hope. I recommend it highly.

Beautiful story!

I couldn't put this book down, it is beautifully written. Daniel Black has the ability to touch your heart & soul in his writting. I loved the characters in this book especially Miss Mary. I am not African American but I am a human being who felt the heartbreak & indignity that my fellow human beings lived during those troubled times. It's still not a perfect world but thank God that times have changed. I can't wait to read Mr. Black's other novels.

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Shaun Henderson

This book is full of details that make me feel a part of this story. I feel like I received a history lesson from all the historic references. This book was very well researched. I look forward to reading more from this author. . .

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In the summer of 1955, fourteen-year-old Clement enters a general store in Money, Mississippi to purchase a soda. Unaware of the consequences of flouting the rules governing black-white relations in the South, this Chicago native defies tradition, by laying a dime on the counter and turns to depart. Miss Cuthbert, the store attendant, demands that he place the money in her hand, but he refuses, declaring, "I ain't no slave!" and exits with a sense of entitlement unknown to black people at the time. His behavior results in his brutal murder. This event sparks a war in Money, forcing the black community to galvanize its strength in pursuit of equality.

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