

Page from a Tennessee Journal
Author: Francine Thomas Howard
Narrator: Casaundra Freeman
Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/20/2011
Author: Francine Thomas Howard
Narrator: Casaundra Freeman
Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/20/2011
Francine Thomas Howard is the author of The Daughter of Union County, Page from a Tennessee Journal, and Paris Noire. A descendant of an enslaved African, Howard writes stories that explore the multicultural legacy of African-descended people throughout the diaspora and reflect her own African, European, and Native American heritage. Raised in San Francisco, Howard earned a BA in occupational therapy from San José State and an MPA from the University of San Francisco. She left a rewarding career in pediatric occupational therapy to pursue another love: writing. Desiring to preserve the remarkable oral histories of her family tree, she began writing down those stories with little thought of publication. That all changed when she turned a family secret about her grandparents into Page from a Tennessee Journal. Francine Thomas Howard resides with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information visit www.francinethomashoward.wordpress.com.
Being interested in all periods of history this book was no exception. The story is set in 1913 in Rural Tennessee and tells the stories of two families. The first family is that of the name Welles, a black family share-cropping tobacco on McNaughton land. Annalaura Welles is in dire straits with he......more
Bare with me while I try to explain my two star rating. First of all, this is a story about a harsh time in South's history - the treatment of blacks after slavery was abolished. It is the very ugly reality of the exploitation of black women by white men, and also of white, southern women by white s......more