Which of the characters in this book were real people and which ones came from the author’s imagination? How hard was it for the author to write in the dialect of a fifteen-year-old slave girl? Who is the one person, dead or alive, she would most like to spend one hour with? The Chronicles of…
Many of the experiences that Neffie went through were a combination of the things that my great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers went through. Although my parents and grandparents couldn’t recall all the slave master names and the people who played a pivotal role in my great-grandmothers’ and great-great-grandmothers’ lives, I took what information was given to me…
