Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit
is a collection of love stories gathered from the descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs and diaries, family reunion publications, Civil War records and numerous other previously untapped sources. And though many of the accounts end in triumphs of sorts, others do not. What they all do share is the amazing spirit of the people whose tales they relay.
The story "The Man Who Wouldn't Grow a Beard begins along the dusty roads of Georgia and recounts the escape of a slave couple. Ellen Craft was so light skinned she was often mistaken as white