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Send Judah First

The Erased Life of an Enslaved Soul

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Send Judah First

By: Brian Johnson
Narrated by: Elizabeth Isitor
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A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid, ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836. But, like the other 276 faceless names entered in that ledger, Judah lived. Brian C. Johnson’s important work of historical fiction goes beyond what is recorded to portray the depth, humanity, and vulnerability of a beautiful soul all but erased by history. For Judah, as Johnson notes, “did the ultimate - she survived. Not as a weakling, but resilient and determined."

©2019 Hidden Shelf Publishing House (P)2021 Hidden Shelf Publishing House African American Heartfelt

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The story was ok, but far too much emphasis was placed on the recipes that the cook made, and far too much of the book involved detailed descriptions of them, and the book ended too suddenly. There were important characters in the story, who deserved some kind of ending for themselves.
As for the narration, there was no change of accent, and little emotional variation.
There are other books that portray the horrors of slavery far better than this, and who's characters the reader becomes emotionally attached to. I wouldn't recommend this to a friend.

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