Send One Angel Down

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Summary: Send One Angel Down
Review: Being a slave isn't easy, but this unique book shows the hope of one slave girl and the power of her dreams. As you read Send One Angel Down by Virginia Schwartz you will learn the sadness of slavery but the happiness of hope. In this Historical Fiction you will read about two cousins; Eliza and Abram. Eliza, the youngest of the two was born into slavery. As she gets older she earns the jealousness of Miss Abigail {Masters daughter}. Eliza has cream-colored skin and bright blue eyes.
The setting of Send One Angel Down takes place on a cotton Plantation, in North Carolina. If you want other books like this book Schwartz has written are If I Just Had Two Wings, Drowning Ruth, Messenger, and Initiation. These book's are filled with detail and realistic stories about 'real life people."
Send One Angel Down will capture you in unforgettable moments. As you realize the amount of hope one can offer.

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Summary: Fly Away Angel
Review: The book, Send one Angel Down, I think is a five star book. If you are into slavery and all the miss treated black's back in the day. The whole book is about a boy named Abram telling his life story about what all happen to him and his family. The stories he tells about his child life will make you cry, laugh and everything in between it. Which I think makes a great book that you will never want to put down until you are done. The character I that I could most relate to is Eliza. Eliza is caring and loving to everyone out though the whole story, even after what she see go on day and day out. I know that from Eliza I learned not to take life for granted and live everyday like there is going to be no tomorrow.

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Summary: Free us like the birds
Review: This book is set during the 1800's during the horrible times of slavery. Abram has been exposed to the many painful ways of these times. After he was born, his mother had passed away, and his father had been a run-away slave, with only his aunt and granny he realized when his baby cousin, Eliza, was born that he had to take care of this baby and act a fatherly roll. The plantation owner, Master Turner, is a cold hearted man with two daughters who discriminate Eliza for her blue eyes and honey colored ski, for being half white as well as being half black. This story shows the pains that Eliza and Abram had to go through this period of time.

I enjoyed this book because it was very descriptive and detailed of how these slaves were treated during this time period. At the end of this book, during the afterward, it tells of how this story is true. It shows the racial differences and how the African American's tolerance of being abused and overworked during the many years of slavery.