Colonel Trent Winters was the wealthy owner of a twelve-hundred-acre sugar cane plantation on the banks of the Mississippi River in the 1850s. He and his wife Collette lived in a beautiful, large plantation home. This successful operation was fueled by dozens and dozens of...

Keeper of Slaves: Book Two by Dickie Erman is a historical fiction tale set in the pre-Civil War days of America in the South. This is the second part in a series of books based around the lives of some of the characters who live...

Slaves of Fools is the third book in the Antebellum Struggles series by Dickie Erman. The story follows the life of Colonel Winters, Collette, Amana, and Tabari as they race against time. All four of them have their own trials and their own challenges that...

Rachael, the narrator of A Spy’s Eyes: Rachael's Story by Dickie Erman, was born to a black mother impregnated by a landowner. Thanks to her light coloring, she has the good fortune to be raised by the landowner and his wife as their own child....

In Dickie Erman’s compelling historical novel, A Spy's Eyes: Rachael's Story, a spy for the Confederacy leaves the South, determined to help their side win the American Civil War. What Rachael Carrington did not count on is the doubt that begins to creep into her...

In 1858, Virginia, Earl Cadbury is forced to sell two of his slaves, Moses and Venus, to a brutal slave trader to save his plantation. When they hear of their destiny from Cadbury's wife, Moses decides to leave his family and make his escape to...

Dickie Erman’s historical fiction novel, The Adventures of Sunny Washington, wastes no words and spares no feelings regarding the attitudes and treatment of black people by whites. So many times, I shook my head in disbelief, beginning with the heartbreak of Sunny’s mother when she...