Betty Deramus: 2 books

In this powerful follow-up to her Essence bestseller Forbidden Fruit**, Betty DeRamus explores the ingenious ways slaves wrestled freedom for themselves and their loved ones.** In Forbidden Fruit DeRamus told the real-life love stories of enslaved African Americans whose relationships with...

Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold stories of ordinary men and women who took extraor dinary measures, risking life and limb to be together. It¹s the story of couples who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to defy the system that allowed slave masters...