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About
the author:
Jesse Jones lived in Detroit for most of
his life where he wrote his first three
novels, including Midnight's Daughter,
The Ultimate Game and The Predator. More
recently, Jesse has written the stage
play Come Back Annie Gray, and his
latest novel: God, Send Sunday.
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ISBN-13: 9781453739068
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God,
Send Sunday
Authored by Jesse Jones
Shadrach
Cobb is born a slave on a Mississippi cotton
plantation, fathered by his master, Morris
Pendrickton, and hated by Barlow Pendrickton,
Morris'
son and legal heir. Barlow's hatred
is intensified because Shadrach has
inherited a skill in the shoe-making craft
which had passsed down through the
Pendrickton family for generations, which
endears him to Morris.
A perceived threat against his life by
Barlow prompts Shadrach and his wife, Kancy,
to escape via the Underground Railroad and
eventually settle in Canada, where Shadrach
earns a college degree and develops a
successful shoe business. Driven by a
calling and a God-given revelation on the
origin of man, he also becomes a noted Bible
scholar and evangelist. As his business
grows, so does his love of money.
Eventually, he loses sight on God's calling
and focuses more on his new found love;
wealth building.
A Detroit entrepreneur convinces him that
his thriving business would grow even faster
if he would purchase his freedom from Morris
and relocate in Michigan, where his real
market is. Shadrach enlists and emissary to
handle the freedom-purchase transaction,
unaware that Morris had died by then. Barlow
capitalizes on an opportunity and dupes
Shadrach's emissary with fake freedom
documents. Upon returning to America,
Shadrach and Kancy are captured as fugitives
and sentenced to re-enslavement in
Mississippi. The ensuing course of events
intrigues even the writer.
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