The Call of Zulina
Grace Winslow is the daughter of a mixed marriage between an English sea captain and an African princess. She has never been outside the family compound until the day she escapes and makes her way to Zulina. She witnesses a human train making its way up the hillside. Slaves that have been captured, tortured and chained together. They are brought to Zulina, their final stop before being shipped to America.
Despite being held for ransom, maimed by a runaway slave, and threatened with death, Grace sympathizes with the plight of the captives. She is especially moved by the African Cabeto’s passion, determination, and willingness to sacrifice anything, including his own life, for his people’s freedom. Leaning on the faith of her nanny Mama Muco, Grace risks everything to follow her heart.
The Voyage of Promise
Slavers burst into Grace Winslow’s life with guns blazing and tear her family apart forever. She watches in anguish as her husband is led in chains aboard a tightly packed slave ship bound for America. An old enemy has a more sinister plan for Grace and prepares her for a different kind of servitude in London. But Grace will not be enslaved. And she will not give up on the man she loves. In her determination to be reunited with her husband, she finds God reaching out to her.
The subject of abolition is very prominent in this story. It was amazing some of the things that were written by slaver traders, covering and twisting the truth for the sake of lining their pockets.
The Triumph of Grace
This conclusion of Grace Winslow’s fight for freedom carries her from England to America’s Deep South. After learning that her husband, Cabeto, is on a South Carolina plantation, Grace dons a sailor’s disguise and boards a ship headed for America. When her secret is discovered, Grace is locked up in the hold.
In South Carolina, Grace is bought immediately, but soon sold to a man who is not a slave keeper. Moved by her story of perseverance and faith, John Hull makes Grace’s mission his own. Grace now has a dear brother in Christ to help her, but a restored sense of hope does not mean the path to finding Cabeto will be clear—or free of trouble . . .
Without giving anything away, I'll just say that these books were so fascinating! Heartbreaking at times, as the plight of kidnapped slaves unfolded. But other times had me laughing out loud, especially when the sailor who survived scurvy tried to adjust to his false teeth!
I got the first two books free for my Kindle, then paid for the third one. $9.99 for three books was well worth the cost! If you have a Kindle reader, I'd be happy to loan them to you.
Many times during the books, reference was made to John Newton, an outspoken minister who was against the slave trade. He also wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace." Kay Marshall Strom has written a non-fiction book about him called "Once Blind." When I finished with The Triumph of Grace, I had to read it as well! When John Newton wrote, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me," no truer words were spoken. He lived many years as a wretched man. His life of sin led him down a dark path, but God's grace was on his heels.
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