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2015 FLORIDA AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS PRESIDENT'S BOOK AWARDS WINNER - BEST HISTORICAL FICTION GOLD 2018 AFRO AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL BOOK AWARDS WINNER - ADULT HISTORICAL FICTION2018 AFRO AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL BOOK AWARDS WINNER - YOUNG ADULT FICTION 2020 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS BOOK AWARD WINNER - BEST SERIESA SERIES FOR ALL AGES.Torn from their homeland in Africa by brutal slave traders Margaret and John are shipped four thousand miles away to the silver mines of Mexico. Unexpectedly, the slaver is pirated at sea and the Calvinist Reverend turned Privateer, Captain Jope, takes Margaret and John to the shores of Virginia instead. Based on exhaustive genealogical and historical research, this epic novel traces the fate of the passengers on what has since become known as the "Black Mayflower." Margaret and John brave disease, Indian attacks, and political intrigue in England and America, as they are among the first Africans to settle in Virginia, long before slavery became institutionalized there. Set against the backdrop of warfare between Spain and England and the power struggles within the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown, Margaret and John's journey to freedom is a powerful saga of courage and survival at the dawn of America's history.

“Fate & Freedom – Book I, The Middle Passage“ reveals the story of two African children, Margarita and Juan, captured during the Portuguese invasion of the Kingdom of Ndongo, high in the mountains of Angola. The year is 1619. Brutally, they are enslaved and shipped some seven thousand miles away to their doom in the silver mines of Mexico. But, before the slaver can reach its destination the ship is pirated by two English corsairs and the children’s fate is set in motion by the Calvinist Reverend turned Privateer, Captain John Jope. Their new destination becomes a small English settlement in the New World which will eventually become known as America.Until recent years their true story was shrouded in mystery. It was simply told that a Dutch captain transported “twenty and odd” Africans to the shores of Virginia. Now, intense research has uncovered their true identities, the tragic fate which brought them to America, and the cover-up perpetrated to shroud their arrival. Knight, a genealogist, traces the steps of the first Africans to arrive in English America, revealing a heartfelt and powerful story that was lost in the ashes of our history.