The Story of Ervin James : Inspired by the former slave who founded a community for freed Blacks in 1870

Description

Ervin James overcame the great odds, pain, loss, and suffering to leave a legacy when he managed to purchase over 100 acres of land and founded a community for freed Black People in 1870.

It’s a story of hope, love and the family we make including the unexpected. Ervin begins his journey as a slave walking from Virginia to South Carolina to stand in a slave market with his mother.

Their lives are a reflection of the many lives lived and lost during slavery in the United States. However, this story is also of the strength and resilience of those who lived through their descendants today.

This book takes readers through Ervin’s life beginning in childhood in 1815 until the purchase of land made in December 1870. Ervin’s story is told against the backdrop of a pre-civil-war era and then through it, gracefully incorporating history and culture into the experience of reading about his life.

The Story of Ervin James is a carefully crafted, yet fictionalized, full length historical novel inspired by the life of Ervin James, an enslaved Black Man who lived in the 1800’s. It is written by his great-great-great grandaughter, Bernette Sherman.