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Forbidden Fruit

Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

By: Betty DeRamus

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Paperback | 27 December 2005 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together—and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property.

In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and between slaves and free black folks. There is the fugitive slave from Virginia who spends seventeen years searching for his wife. A Georgia slave couple that sails for England with federal troops trailing behind. A white woman who falls in love with her deceased husband''s slave. A young slave girl who is delivered to her fiancé inside a wooden chest.

Acclaimed journalist Betty DeRamus gleaned these anecdotes from descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs, Civil War records, census data, magazines, and dozens of previously untapped sources. This is a book about people pursuing love and achievement in a time of hate and severely limited opportunities. Though not all of the stories in Forbidden Fruit end in triumph, they all celebrate hope, passion, courage, and triumph of the human spirit.

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"With lucid and poignant prose, Betty DeRamus has tapped a heretofore unknown vein of Black culture: love stories from the Underground Railroad." -- Herb Boyd, author of We Shall Overcome and Pound for Pound

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The Rebels
Love in a Time of Hate	p. 3
A Love Worth Waiting For	p. 15
The Special Delivery Package	p. 29
The Man Who Couldn't Grow a Beard	p. 41
Even a Blind Horse Knows the Way	p. 61
The Slave Who Knew His Name	p. 77
Footprints in the Snow	p. 95
Chased by Wolves	p. 109
The Woman on John Little's Back	p. 125
Angeline's Blues	p. 129
Crossing the Color Line
Suspicious Lynchings, Passing for White, Passing for Black and Mixed Marriages in Deadly Times: A Chronology	p. 139
Hound Dogs Hate Red Pepper	p. 153
The Schoolteacher Had to Duck Dead Cats	p. 173
Free at Last
Guns and Pickles	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 259
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Forbidden Fruit

Love Stories from the Underground Railroad

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