Old Josh

The Story is about the slave, Old Josh Jefferson (taken as a lad of ten years old, from the Congo), whom is the author's protagonist, and his two sons: Silas and Jordon. The story is roughly Josh's coarse adventures in Ozark, Alabama: his plantation life, his friend Amos, its pungent, yet primitive living conditions; its lust bearing greed of the trying era. It is about two races trying to do their best under the circumstances of a nation under Civil War actions. Ashley and her mother are servants within the Hightower plantation, their life as well as Old Josh's and the Ghost, who lives in the last shanty on the plantation gives the reader an unsuspecting ending, as well as a heartwarming Civil War tragedy. Dr. Dennis L. Siluk is a poet since he was twelve years old, a writer, Psychologist, Ordained Minister, Decorated Veteran from the Vietnam War, Doctor in Arts and Education. In addition, he received twice Honorary Doctorate, and was appointed Poet Laureate in Peru nine times. One of his books, "The Galilean," took Honorable Mention at the 2016 Paris Book Festival, and received an award from the Congress of Peru, for his cultural writings. He is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, and lives with his wife Rosa, in Lima, Peru and High up in the Andes, in Huancayo, also, in Minnesota.