Living in the Shadow of Slavery by Victoria Casey-McDonald

In this, Victoria's last novel, "Living in the Shadow of Slavery," which had been completed and ready for publication, she continues the story of her great grandmother Amanda...a story that began in the book, "Under the Light of Darkness." As a slave of the renown white Principle Chief of the Cherokee, William Holland Thomas (in the 1840s and 50s), Amanda is now faced with what to do after the Civil War ends in 1865 and the slaves are pronounced free. In this unsettling time, Amanda, who has never known freedom, has many choices to make, and we, the readers are taken through this unknown territory with her, until she and her family no longer live in the shadow of slavery, become landowners and realize their future is in their own hands.