Forbidden Fruit
Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

By Betty DeRamus

 For more information e-mail bjderamus@aol.com

About the Author Meet the Author Book Excerpt Freedom by any Means

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This Essence best-seller is a collection of true stories of enslaved couples who fought mobs, bloodhounds, wolves, bounty hunters and social taboos to remain together.
Characters include a free black man who became a slave to remain with his enslaved wife.

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