Forbidden Fruit, Betty DeRamus
Forbidden Fruit, Betty DeRamus
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Forbidden Fruit
Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

Author: Betty DeRamus

Narrator: Michael Early, Yusef Miller, Bernadette Drayton, Cherene Snow, Kevin R. Free, Lizzy Cooper-Davis

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/27/2008


Synopsis

A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Betty DeRamus is an award-winning journalist who rummaged through musty records and forgotten memoirs to resurrect this book's unsung heroes. Despite the risks, some American slaves partook of the "forbidden fruit" of marriage. And when the dreaded separation inevitably occurred, slave spouses grieved deeply and sometimes made Herculean efforts to re-unite. DeRamus recounts the tales of soulmates who braved bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to preserve their vows of love.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Caitlin on September 20, 2010

The stories are not well written and there is an awkwardness to the text. But this is forgiven in favor of the content. Slavery is such a scourge on our country's history, but this collection of run away slave narratives is remarkable. What people did for love, the very people who were believed by T......more

Goodreads review by Maya on June 18, 2009

The subtitle simply does not adequately describe the incredible stories DeRamus relates here. The people whose stories she tells in Forbidden Fruit are mind-blowing; I can't imagine having to do the things they had to do. Some of the people had to walk for thousands of miles, until they reached Detr......more

Goodreads review by Yaron on June 22, 2012

These stories are both heart-wrenching when you feel for the families being separated and brutalized and inspiring when you think about the lengths people went to be together. I hear the challenges and injustices people fought through to be able to be with the people they love and it makes me really......more

Goodreads review by Briayna on June 16, 2020

If I could’ve only deducted half a star, I would have. This was a great compilation of stories. I wish the editing/organization of them had been a bit better (for cohesiveness), but I loved the diversity of them all, nonetheless.......more

Goodreads review by Kira on October 13, 2024

Inspiring......more