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Freedom Come
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Walter T. Byrd Jr.
Published: May 7 2025
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
FREEDOM COME
By Walter T. Byrd Jr.
They tried to break their bodies.
They failed to silence their souls.
In the blood-soaked cane fields of 18th-century Louisiana, the Toussaint family is torn from their homeland and cast into the brutal machinery of slavery. But what the slavers never expected was fire hidden in flesh-and memory sharper than any lash.
Olivier Toussaint, a young man chained for his mind and punished for his spirit, dares to defy the empire built on Black suffering. Alongside his fierce sister Élise, the gifted child Camille, and a rising tide of rebels, he ignites a revolution born not of politics-but of vengeance, love, and ancestral power.
From the belly of slave ships to the heart of burning plantations, Freedom Come is a searing tale of resistance, rage, and the sacred right to remember. Gritty, poetic, and devastatingly human, this is not just a novel-it's a reckoning.
For fans of Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler-this is the story they never wanted told.
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