New Book Tells Secret Slavery Stories

NEW BOOK TELLS THE SECRET SLAVE STORIES OF WOMEN BROUGHT IN CHAINS FROM WEST AFRICA TO A BREEDING PLANTATION IN MISSISSIPPI -- Some of the People Could Fly: The Power of Dreams and Desire in the Quest for Freedom -- Bookcover Nationwide (September 30, 2011) -- The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. Available in eBook and coming soon to trade paperback, these are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy. In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners' Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free. From the tale of a beautiful woman imprisoned in a slavetrader's tower to save her village from raiders on the West African coast, to the murdered girl whose spirit is trapped in her bedroom mirror in Mississippi, these stories build to a bloody battle between the shape-shifting freed people hiding in plain sight and the bounty-hunting patrollers who pursue them. The blue-eyed African American girl who masquerades as the freed people's owner must learn, in the end, to choose the love and freedom in hiding that she can have or succumb to the death that is its only alternative. Blood of Angels shows the power of dreams, magic and the desire to be free. Alexis Brooks de Vita is the author of the five-star reviewed The First Book of Joy: Burning Streams, The 1855 Murder Case of Missouri versus Celia, the Millennial translation of Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell, and Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses, which the Midwest Book Review praised as "a complex, in-depth survey, highly recommended for college-level students of African literary roots," and Research in African Literature described as "...remarkable for its impressive scope of knowledge, particularly in the area of African lore and literature." Bringing yet more depth to The Books of Joy, the books' own website features interactive material at www.alexisbrooksdevita.com/thebooksofjoy. With quizzes, bonus stories, images, and video, visitors gain an intimate understanding of the stories and characters they have come to know. ABOUT THE BOOK: Title: The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels Author: Alexis Brooks de Vita ISBN-10: 1-55404-862-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-55404-862-5 Genre: Suspense/Thriller - Fantasy/SF eBook Length: 290 Pages eBook Formats: Rocket Ebook, MS-Reader, Adobe PDF, Palm, Hiebook, iSilo, Kindle Reader/ Mobi Pocket (.prc/.mobi), SONY Reader, HTML Published: August 2011 E-Book List Price: $5.99 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in the Watts Projects shortly before the first Riots, Alexis Brooks de Vita lived in Uganda under Idi Amin Dada and was sent to boarding school in Switzerland to escape his coup, traveling through France, Italy, Hungary and Russia (as the Soviet Union). Her doctorate is in the Comparative Literatures of women of African descent written in English, French, Italian, and Spanish. She has taught French, Italian, Spanish, and Women's Studies, and now teaches African and Diaspora Literature and Theory at one of the nation's largest historically African American universities. She has two daughters and two sons. She may be found on her website www.alexisbrooksdevita.com and reached through her website email address: author@alexisbrooksdevita.com -END-