Forbidden Fruit
Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

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

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

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

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

Inspiring......more