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Synopsis
Darien Dexter Duff, Junior, the older brother of Daneece and "Doofy Doofus" Duff was born on a Louisiana plantation prior to the Civil War. After the bloody war ended slaves were free to live and work where they pleased. So, Pappy and Mammy decided to seek a job elsewhere with their 3 children and Mammy's Sister Sue and her six children. Darien records the family's trek through Ole Gassy Swamp that was infested with dangerous critters. The family eventually finds employment in a sawmill in Great Piney Woods that is haunted by the Great Piney Wood Witches! After a scare by a "witch," a frolic with a tribe of Chicopee Indians, the family lose their jobs. They are then joined by their friends, Mammy Marie and her pretty gal, Solange. They trek to the Mississippi River and ride on a paddleboat, commanded by Captain Sam, Riverboat Man, to the bustling port of New Orleans. And throughout the peril and hilarity, Darien Duff records everything in his journal. The book includes photos and nonfiction information that will interest parents, teachers, and librarians. Be sure to read The Journal of Leroy Jeremiah Jones, a Fugitive Slave (Alabama 1855) and The Diary of a Slave Girl, Ruby Jo (South Carolina 1718)
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This book is an excellent book to teach children history as well as how families can support and encourage each other, often with humor, in the face of adversity.
About the Author
K. J. McWilliams is a former elementary teacher and school librarian who began researching and writing about SLAVERY IN THE NEW WORLD and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN while working as a school librarian on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1985 K. J. won the prestigious Work-in-Progress Grant awarded by the Society of Children's Book Writers for Pirates of the Colonial Coasts. K. J. published the nonfiction children's book, Pirates (Franklin Watts Publishers), as well as reading comprehension test questions for Harcourt Brace Educational Measurement Co., magazine articles for Writer's Digest, The Writer, The Writer's Handbook, and Once Upon a Time, and children and adult book reviews for Independent Publisher Magazine. Recently K. J. published two middle-grade novels, The Journal of Leroy Jeremiah Jones, a Fugitive Slave about a boy who hides his family in an Appalachian cave and The Diary of a Slave Girl, Ruby Jo that culminates in Blackbeard and his pirates blockading Charles Town, South Carolina in May 1718! Some of the information in K. J.'s books about pirates is based on trial transcripts of Calico Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and others. And most of the factual information in the slave books is based on dozens of slave narratives written by actual slaves about their experiences! The Journal of Darien Dexter Duff, an Emancipated Slave begins in the spring of 1865 after the bloody Civil War (1861-1865) when all slaves in the United States were emancipated to live their lives as free men, women, and children. The locale is Louisiana where Darien and his family trek across Ole Gassy Swamp, work for awhile in Great Piney wood, then take a paddleboat steamboat down the Mississippi to New Orleans where they continue to have adventures. K. J. writes her books for children and teachers who hopefully will use them in their classrooms to teach American history. Each includes photos and factual information in the
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