A Slave to Want - Kindle Fiction

A Slave to Want 
by Jay Grewal 

What happens when a young black slave with unique powers shakes up the rural plantation he's born on?

Set against the background of a turbulent era when slavery was a flaming cloud on history's horizon, Jelani, a runaway slave, recollects the inspirational story of his life.

By age eleven, all he knows of the outside world is what he has learned from his mother, and Jessie, the plantation owner's daughter. He is quickly introduced to the ugly realities of a slave's life through the actions of a sadistic owner and overseers who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to ensure their dominance. But Jelani does not break. He has the hope of the truly innocent, which, together with a special power, allows him to prevail.

Considered a threat, Jelani escapes into a strange new world where his only resources are a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet and the clothes on his back. Following his mother's words to be a slave to want, but never to any man, he heads north in search of his freedom, a goal that seems nearly impossible with slave hunters hot on his heels and the country on the verge of civil war. Along the way—shaping his journey—he encounters patrollers, abolitionists and other runaways on route to the Underground Railroad. Through his trials and tribulations, Jelani discovers that beyond everything that makes him different is everything that makes him human.

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