Freedom Ships

By Robert Carey and John Harvey Furbay

Book Overview

From the dusty archives and faded documents of our past, Freedom Ships brings to life the exciting drama of a bold effort to help black "freedmen" return to Africa to seek real freedom and found their own nation. These brave black pioneers dared to risk all dangers so their children could escape the inhuman bondage and overwhelming weight of prejudice in the slave era of America. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966961307
• ISBN13: 9780966961300
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: AF-Am Links Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

An impressive, engaging, highly recommended historical novel

Freedom Ships is an exciting and informative historical novel about African Americans who managed to go back to Africa in 1820 to find the freedom denied them in America decades before the Emancipation. Based on a neglected chapter in America's history, elements of the Freedom Ships narrative are reconstructed from emigrant letters, diaries, official reports in the Library of Congress, and U.S. Navy and Congressional archives. A highly recommended and engaging novel, Robert Carey and John Furbay have successfully collaborated to write an epic story of freed slaves who dare to risk all dangers in a vast and unknown continent so that their children could escape the inhuman bondage and overwhelming racial prejudice of slave era America.

Freedom Ships Have Landed ! ! !

The story of African Americans leaving the United States in the 1800s to find a better life else where seems quite unreal, but this historical novel uses that base to make a wonderful story. The use of character description and the creation of a new frontier give this novel a great base for developing into an interesting novel that will make you suggest this to your neighbors and friends. The cross-over of people and locations gives the chronological story a great way of how time passes by and people still move towards the ultimate goal, freedom in their own country of Africa. This story has the opportunity to become a great school-oriented novel if given the right direction. All-in-all, this novel would be great for anyone interested in history, African culture and/or Southern and Northern attitudes in America before the Civel War.