Muscavado — Eleanor Heckert

His name was Prince. He was handsome, strong, brilliant, with a fiery irresistible magnetism. He was also black. And in bondage. Under the lash his proud spirit grew stronger -- his hatred grew. He worked in secret among his people until they became as a great black fist poised to strike, to maim, to kill -- for freedom.

But always, flowering beneath his rage, was the passion that had begun as lust for the white girl and turned to love…

HERE IS A SEARING NOVEL OF ONE OF HISTORY'S CRUELEST AND MOST BLOODY EPISODES -- A FRANK AND POWERFUL DRAMA THAT VIVIDLY REVEALS THE OPEN WOUND OF THE PAST.