The Voyage of Promise
Grace in Africa Book Two
by Kay Marshall Strom
Paperback
Price: £9.99
Publisher:Abingdon Press from Alban Books
Published:November 2010
ISBN:978-1-426-70212-9
GoodBookStall Review:
The first book finished on such an upbeat, that it is distressing to find that Grace and her fellow captives freed from the Zulina slave fortress have been overwhelmed and captured again.
It is five years later, 1792, and the opening chapter paints a picture of a happy community; Grace and Cabeto have a little boy and all seems peaceful until in the night the slave trader’s African warriors attack the village and horrific scenes ensue. Scenes that I found hard to read, but knew I had to. This may be fiction, but what is described must have really happened time and time again.
The description of the families torn apart, the ships being overloaded, the treatment of these men and women has all been documented elsewhere, but reading this story brings it all harrowingly alive.
Torn from her child and her husband, Grace is carried off to England and this is the story of the voyage and what happens to her in London.
Will she ever see Cabeto again? The third in the trilogy is called The Triumph of Grace so there is still hope.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (23/02/11)
The first book finished on such an upbeat, that it is distressing to find that Grace and her fellow captives freed from the Zulina slave fortress have been overwhelmed and captured again.
It is five years later, 1792, and the opening chapter paints a picture of a happy community; Grace and Cabeto have a little boy and all seems peaceful until in the night the slave trader’s African warriors attack the village and horrific scenes ensue. Scenes that I found hard to read, but knew I had to. This may be fiction, but what is described must have really happened time and time again.
The description of the families torn apart, the ships being overloaded, the treatment of these men and women has all been documented elsewhere, but reading this story brings it all harrowingly alive.
Torn from her child and her husband, Grace is carried off to England and this is the story of the voyage and what happens to her in London.
Will she ever see Cabeto again? The third in the trilogy is called The Triumph of Grace so there is still hope.
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (23/02/11)
