Escape from Jim Crow

William Edgenton is old, crippled and waiting to die when the chorus of bemoaned slave spirits not heard from since boyhood command him to put down his crutches and write the adventurous, tragic story that unfolded while growing up in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and Liberia. Everything changes for Willie and eleven siblings when years before the Garvey Movement a devious promoter convinces their parents to sell a prosperous farm expecting to move to the Gold Coast but find themselves enroute to Liberia.

Young Willie sees the hostile relationship between Americo-Liberians and tribal communities firsthand, learns a dark secret of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from a mysterious 166-year-old eyewitness, risks life and limb when the Germans bomb Monrovia in 1918; narrowly escapes from wild animals, violent villagers, and more.

Willie journeys to an unknown ancient city, then to the underground habitat of Divine Mother Africa; participates in a mind-blowing coming-of-age ritual, witnesses a 1,000-year-old warrior priest depart for the afterlife, and more...