Ebook {Epub PDF} A Long Way from Home by Connie Briscoe

 · A Long Way From Home - This is based on a true story the author Connie Briscoe lives in Virginia. She is a descendant of the slaves on the James Madison family plantation, Montpelier. There are both blacks and whites in her family tree. A multi-generation story of slavery, freedom, indestructible love in the lives of the family.4/5. Buy a cheap copy of A Long Way from Home book by Connie Briscoe. From Connie Briscoe, the New York Times bestselling author of Sisters Lovers and Big Girls Don't Cry, comes a lyrical and moving tour de force that is her most Free Shipping on all orders over $/5(6).  · A Long Way from Home vividly re-creates Southern life and the ambivalent, shifting relationships on both sides of the color divide, from the cruelty and insidious benevolence of white owners to the deep yearnings and complex emotions of the slaves themselves. It is an unforgettable story that pays homage to the African-American experience and to the ancestors whose lives and histories are /5(44).

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