Send One Angel Down

The book I read was called Send One Angel Down, the author of the book was Virginia Frances Schwartz. She has written 6 other books. Two being called Crossing to Freedom and If I Just Had Two Wings, all three books deal with race and freedom. For instance in my book it’s about slavery and African American’s wanting freedom and in Crossing to Freedom it’s pretty self-explanatory, the African American’s in the other book want freedom as well.

This book is basically about slavery and how their master would take the babies away when they were old enough and either sell them or make them work the fields at age 5. It’s more about this boy, Abram and his cousin Eliza. She was a mixed girl and could never understand why everyone was darker than her and why she had blue eyes. Abram was the over protective cousin and a slave farmer. He took care of his cousin as best as he could and also worked the farms. For example Abram would take Eliza to the masters every Sunday to play with the masters daughters and they would question her skin color and eyes. The nanny would start to play with the girls to distract them from talking about it. Everyone had a pretty good idea what the master had done and why the little girl was mixed with blue eyes. The mother of Eliza had become ill and got pregnant again, read for yourself.

I recommend this book to anyone who is into history or slavery. It’s a fascinating tell over experiences some people will never understand. I would encourage anyone to read this book to be honest. I loved it I thought it was a great book over what happened to colored people and the differences between how people were treated then compared to how they are treated now. It was a very fascinating book and if I had the choice I would make it a class book for everyone to read.

Book Review by Kristan S.