01586cam a2200313 4500 264305372 TxAuBib 20151231120000.0 000713s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00043682 9780446530521 24.95 0446530522 24.95 (OCoLC)779395764 TxAuBib Tademy, Lalita. Cane River #1 / Lalita Tademy. Warner Books, 2001. xii, 418 p. : ports., geneal. tables ; 24 cm. Tademy Family Chronicles ; 1 When the urge hit her, Lalita Tademy was corporate vice president of Sun Microsystems: "I had the feeling there was something else I was supposed to do." While she was deciding what that something else was, Tademy spent two years researching "the slave branch" of her family, "my mother's side." Returning to her ancestors' Cane River roots, she scouted old sharecroppers' farms; ransacked old courthouse archives; plotted a paper trail from grueling bondage to better days. Then, discovering what "I was supposed to do," she sat down to write this novel about the lives of slaves who were never allowed to write it themselves. Genealogy with wings. 20010803. African American women Fiction. Family life Fiction. Cane River Region (La) Fiction. Louisiana Fiction. Historical fiction. Tademy Family Chronicles ; 1. TXHAM