Publisher's Synopsis
Have you ever come to a "fork in the road" and didn't know which way to turn? Everyone has. This book is for all people, regardless of your background, age or race. You are stuck at the fork in the road, because your real self is lost in the past. The only path to freedom and Becoming your real self is to do as the author did: Take a mental journey, though very difficult, into your traumatic past to find and heal your lost, "true self", and Become who you were created to be - a glorious, happy human being, living a life that is a gift to the world. You will discover yourself in the pages of this book and find that the answer is in the word 'Me'. Read all about it here."Do you believe a story about plantation sharecropping in Mississippi can be a catalyst for changing your life? It can, if you read it with an open mind and with the intention of BECOMING - of finding and healing your hidden self, that part of you that is the Me of you - the real you. You will find yourself in the pages of this book - your Me.This Mississippi native chronicles her shocking, riveting, heart-wrenching true story about the horrific injustice of plantation sharecropping she experienced as a child during the Jim Crow era, a time when racial oppression of Black Americans was a legal extension of slavery and how she overcame its negative aftereffects. She takes you on her life journey, beginning when she was born into generational sharecropping poverty like her father, mother and fore parents. Being delivered at birth by a "horse doctor", because no white doctors during the Jim Crow era in the South would treat black patients, it seemed her fate was bound and tied to that of her parents. But her benevolent spirit had other plans. She was plucked out of the cottonfields by God, just like King David was plucked from the sheepfold to be King of Israeli. The author believes that there is a powerful benevolent spirit that can elevate the lowly, of people, races and nations, and even "A Sharecropper's Daughter" to a place of victory and triumph. The author chronicles all the twists and turn of her mysterious yet, triumphant life. Some of the most powerful stories she tells, might seem incredulous to many, but she told the truth raw and uncut in every chapter. Is this book about plantation sharecropping, employment discrimination, racial injustice, slavery reparations, Blues Music, childhood sexual abuse, self-help or Becoming? It's about that and more, and the author hopes life-changing for her readers too.Blues music threads the needle in many chapters of this book because of her mystical connection to Blues music and its importance to African American culture. Blues music was a critical and necessary way of expression for the abused plantation sharecroppers. Blues music was a constant in her childhood on the plantation. She used some choice, not so nice words, when describing the white segregationists, but, somewhere during her writings, she termed the white supremacists as, MR. BLUES. The book contains breathtaking, sad stories of her sharecropping parents and other fore parents who were generational sharecroppers, who lived and died in poverty.Do you believe in a spiritual call to service to mankind? Do you believe that when you're called, untold numbers of angels come into your life to assist you? She introduces ANGELS who helped her, Black and White ones. She believes her entire life has been a mystery of various tapestries unfolding of "The Sharecropper's Daughter" to the world, as an example of an invisible power that elevates mankind. "A Sharecropper's Daughter Becoming" is a powerful story that will inspire, enlighten, inform, educate, captivate, warn, shock and rock some, she even asks the pertinent question of white and black Americans, while entertaining and shocking in the last chapter about "The Men I Knew Who helped me Become".
