The whileBlack Chronicles' When United Black Families Encounter Powerful Whites What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The first book in the whileBlack Chronicles’ takes place where most of us started in America; on a cotton plantation. Some of you may think, “Great, just what I want to read about, the evils of slavery. So, who cares? It was too long ago, and besides, everyone knows slavery was bad.

I thought the same way. At the same time, the Chronicles’ has to begin on a plantation. For a novice writer like me, it was a challenge. How do I bring the story to life and not write about the breakup of families and the brutality?

I published the first book in the Chronicles’ “If Cotton Could Talk” to tell a story about relationships created by strangers with one goal in mind. Prepare and plan for freedom. It's not a book about slavery. It's a story about relationships!

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2023

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I have read quite a few books on the Civil War but none that told the daily life & appalling conditions that slaves had to endure.
I see this is the first book in a series & I cannot wait to get the next book.

Well done, Mr. Hayes!