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The Story Of Ms. Gertie King
- A Heartwarming and Gripping Post Civil War Era Southern Plantation Family Saga Set in the Deep South of Mobile, Alabama (Faith-based)
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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Ya'll, let me tell you my story!
Glad you could find your way here, and I welcome you to the Sellers Plantation here in the deep south of Mobile, Alabama. I'm anxious to get started with my story tellin,' so, I'm sharin' a little bout the story that I be tellin' to ya'll down below.When I wuz born, I be given the name Gertrude Ida Rollins, but as I be growin' folks just be callin' me Ms. Gertie. I wuz born in Mobile, Alabama in the year eighteen and eighty-eight. Yes, that be a long time ago for most of ya'll, but I thinks it be good to be learnin' bout the history that be comin' before you were born. The days of slavery wuz twenty years in the past, but for most folks of color, not much had changed in terms of treatment by wealthy plantation owners here in the deep south.
My story is gonna takes you on a journey through my experiences from when I be a small child up to when I became a young woman. I’ll be sharin’ with ya’ll the trials I faced for bein’ colored, which always set my little heart to racing, but I’ll also be tellin’ you bout the joys I wuz to know through singin;' which be somethin' I've always loved to do since I be real small. My love for singin’ began when I be usin' my boomin’ voice to sing out the ol' southern gospels in my Granddaddy Isaiah’s church every Sunday. That’s right, Ms. Gertie’s gonna take ya’ll to church, cuz it be one of my favorite places to be.
Ya'll will also be meetin' three amazingly strong women which be my Mama Cecilia, Granny Mabel, and her best friend Mama Hall. They all were highly responsible for shapin’ my life in a very profound way. Specially when it came to sharin’ their secret family recipes so’s I could learn to cook which I be lovin' to do since I be small, and teachin’ me bout becomin’ a woman; which be a time in my life that I be findin' real awkward and highly confusin.'
Throughout my life, I wuz to learn that within the same family which be the Sellers, that you could witness evil and hate, or love and respect; dependin’ on the family member that you be encounterin.' Be sure to pay close attention, cuz der will also be a mystery of sorts that involves ol' Mister Joe, the evil overseer whom everyone greatly despised. I know you'll be wantin' to figure things out; but it's one mystery I neva found me an answer to yet.
For those that be lovin’ em’ a love story, I'll be throwin' in a little romance down the way, but I'm savin' that for later, cuz that be a real special part of my story.
I can tells you this, I likes to talk in a loud boomin' voice, so don't be afraid none if'n I gets excited from time to time with the tellin' of my story. All I can be sayin' for now is that der is gonna be situations that make you bust out laughin,' then cryin' cuz you be feelin' sad, and other parts of the story that will has you scratchin' your head in wonder.I just sat down on my front porch, I’m in my favorite rockin' chair with a cup of hot black coffee in my hand, and I’m ready to do me some story-tellin.’ So, grab you a nice cold glass of sweet tea or lemonade if’n that’s what you prefer, sit on back, and let me tell you my story. You can trust that I be knowin’ how to tell ya'll a good story, I has been tellin’ stories my whole life, and if’n I do say so myself, my story be a real good one!
We be startin' at the beginin,' it be my fourth birthday, and I wuz real excited bout havin' me some chocolate cake that my Granny Mabel be makin' for my party. I be thinkin' that everybody loves dem some cake, right? (Further on in my life after this story be told, I became famous for my chocolate cakes, and strangely enough the mention of my cakes be savin' a young man's life. But that be another story for another day.)I has a whole lot of years to get through that I hope ya'll will find mighty interestin,' so it's time for us to be gettin' started!
Let's begin...
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Sequel to: The Story Of Ms. Gertie King (Book #4 in the Bentley Family Adventure Series) Howdy, ya'll, I'm back! It's Ms. Gertie King here, and the year be nineteen hundred and seventy-eight. I can hardly believe it, but I've now reached the ripe ol' age of ninety, and thanks be to the Lord; he's showered me with many blessings in my long life. For the most part, I still has my mind fully intact, my boomin' voice has not left me, and I can still chase after the young'uns if'n they don't run too fast! My grandbabies be keepin' me young, that's for sure. For those of you who don't know it, ...
By: Tammy Lockamy
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The Slave
- By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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The latest release from the author of Darkness: A Slave's Story, Doris: Return to the Slave Farm, and The Lilac Nurse! “You have no idea who you’re dealin’ with here. He wasn’t just a slave for a few years; he was a slave most of his life. We don’t even know half his story.” George Ambrose 'Sailor' Washington wasn't released from slavery on January 1, 1863, as were most other slaves in the United States. He spent many more years in involuntary servitude. The Slave is historical fiction about the Works Progress Administration's attempt to interview all remaining former slaves ...
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The Undertaker’s Assistant
- By: Amanda Skenandore
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies - and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer's shortcomings.
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A riveting story that will keep your interest.
- By Patricia on 08-02-19
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The Longest Road
- By: Dan Walsh
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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** Long-Awaited Sequel to Dan’s Award-Winning Novel - The Deepest Waters ** It’s October, 1857, just a few years before the Civil War. After recovering a month in New York from the shipwreck that almost took their lives, John and Laura Foster finalize plans to return home to San Francisco. Knowing they must return, both are dreading the voyage. Their plans suddenly change when they learn of a tragedy involving their beloved friend and former slave, Micah. His youngest daughter Hannah, still a slave in Virginia, has been mercilessly torn from the arms of her husband and sold to a wicked ...
By: Dan Walsh
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Things Left Unspoken
- A Novel
- By: Eva Marie Everson
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Jo-Lynn Hunter is at a crossroads in life when her great-aunt Stella insists that she return home to restore the old family house in sleepy Cottonwood, Georgia. Seeing the project as the perfect excuse for some therapeutic time away from her self-absorbed husband and his snobby Atlanta friends, Jo-Lynn longs to get her teeth into a noteworthy and satisfying project. But things are not what they seem, both in the house and within the complex history of her family.
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I loved the way she brought out the good and the bad in the people she wrote about.
- By JayAchTee on 11-27-23
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Charleston's Daughter
- The Low Country Series, Book 1
- By: Sabra Waldfogel
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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A Charleston belle with slavery on her conscience. A slave with rebellion in her heart. In South Carolina in 1858, no friendship could be more dangerous.
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Great Historical Research
- By Carmen Lang on 11-26-20
By: Sabra Waldfogel
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Angels Watching Over Me
- The Shenandoah Sisters, Book 1
- By: Michael Phillips
- Narrated by: Susan Spain
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Michael Phillips is one of today's most popular Christian authors. He has written more than four dozen novels, with over five million copies in print. Angels Watching Over Me is the first book in a stirring saga that follows two women, one black, one white, in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Great Start- ending left u hanging!
- By America on 10-04-16
By: Michael Phillips
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Appalachian Daughter
- By: Mary Jane Salyers
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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On the last day of eighth grade, Maggie begins to dream of finding a way to escape the drudgery and confinement of life in the hollow and establish her independence. Her plan begins to fall in place when she enters high school and discovers she has a natural talent for excelling in shorthand, typing, and other business classes. Meanwhile she spares no effort in helping her family continue to survive despite their poverty, a less than fertile few acres, and a family history of instability.
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Heartwarming story
- By G'amazing on 12-22-19
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It Happened in Silence
- A beautifully written, page-turning southern suspense novel
- By: Karla M Jay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
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This is a powerful tale of family, a celebration of decency, and the heartbreak of society’s injustices then that rings true today. ★★★★★ Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It's Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother, Briar. When a peddler kidnaps her, she escapes only to face an unjust arrest and penal servitude. ...
By: Karla M Jay
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Candle in the Darkness
- By: Lynn Austin
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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Winner of the 2001 Christy Award, Lynn Austin captures the turmoil of the Civil War in this stirring novel. From vast plantations to the cramped closets of the Underground Railroad, it follows one young woman's inspiring journey of risk and sacrifice.
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A different look at the Civil War
- By Terry on 05-18-05
By: Lynn Austin
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Darkness
- A Slave's Story
- By: Jeff Nebeker-Johnson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Darkness: A Slave’s Story is a fictionalized account of not just one slave’s life, but the tribulations and misery of many American slaves. Darkness cannot comprehend why she is a slave, simply because of the color of her skin. Throughout her childhood she vows to one day have what she believes her white masters have: a life free from suffering. Because of her rebellious nature, she is sold at auction to a brother and sister on a lone hemp farm and learns what it’s like to live and work alongside a white family. When one of her owners head off to fight for the Union during the Civil ...
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- 03-01-24
suffering and sacrifice
the evils of slavery. The misquoted scriptures. The ignorance and arrogance of the white people. The hateful bigotry of the people who deemed themselves superior.
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- 04-12-24
What Kind of ending was that?
The story was good all the way up to the end and the ending was terrible! Just kind of stops then the epilogue announces there's more to the story just gotta read the rest of the series. Come on now! I also did not like the digital performance because word were pronounced incorrectly. It's supper not souper!
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