Band of Angels
As the title of this novel races through my mind I image a beautiful young girl living a peaceful life. As the story line unfolds the reader is trapped in a world of disbelief and anger. The main character, Amantha Starr, shows the reader that life is not always what it seems to be. On a plantation near Danville, Kentucky, Amantha grew up knowing only the love of her father, Aaron Pendleton Starr. Growing up as a motherless child many would think that she was lost to the world, but her father and Aunt Sukie made sure that she always had whatever her heart desired. Amantha, also called Manty, remembered a scene from her childhood where her father sold a slave. The slave was a dear friend to Manty, and it was hard for the girl to understand why the slave was sold. Her father doesn't like to talk about it and so the child grows up not knowing why. In August of 1852 Amantha's father decides it was time for her to go to school. On the trip they stopped in Cincinnati where Manty meet Miss Idell, her father's fling at the time. Miss Idell took Manty shopping for new school clothes and such. Manty enjoyed every moment with the lovely woman. Later that week Manty is sent to Oberlin, Ohio where she is to a
As the soldiers draw closer to them Hamish sets Amantha free. Some weeks later a letter came saying that Amantha's father had died. She also meets Captain Tobias Sears who is also a friend of Seth's. The stranger took Amantha to a man that was going to ship her to New Orleans to be sold. Manty never quiet understood this man. He would not do so, saying that even if he did they would have no where to go and he would still have to feed them. She became good friends with many of the other slaves and soon became a friend to Hamish Bond himself. Over the course of many years they became lovers of a sort. For many years to come Amantha and Tobias fight to keep their lives together, but in the end they find each other and move on with their lives. Not knowing what to do she ask Aunt Sukie if there were any papers. There she meets Seth, an old friend from school, who has joined the army. She rushed to her father's graveside. Amantha and Hamish live there for several years. With her new found freedom Manty lives in a small apartment type home in town.
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