![]() The culmination of Queen's dreams was when her last-born son, Simon, graduated from college, just one generation up from slavery. She eventually married Alec Haley, a ferryboat operator, and together they strove to provide everything possible for their growing family. After the Civil War, Queen left the plantation a free woman, tried to find her identity in a world in which she looked white but was regarded as black. ![]() ![]() His son formed a romantic attachment to the beautiful strong willed slave, Easter, and together they had a daughter, Queen, Alex Haley's grandmother. Opening in Ireland, this book follows the story of Alex Haley's Irish great-great grandfather, James Jackson, sent to the United States, where he established the Forks of Cypress plantation in Alabama and raised his family. ![]()
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