By Alumni

Freedom Bound

by Rosalie T. Turner

Freedom Bound, a novel by Rosalie T. Turner ’62, tells the true story of Anna Kingsley, a young royal who was captured during a tribal raid in Senegal. At the age of 13, Anna, then known as Anta Madgigine Jai, was captured and sold to a wealthy planter/trader, Zephaniah Kingsley from Spanish East Florida. By the time they reached his plantation, she was pregnant with their first child. Freedom Bound chronicles Anna Kingsley’s continuing quest for freedom. Turner addresses the issue of how a woman uses her strength to survive and overcome hardship.

Freedom Bound has received an award from the Florida First Coast Writers Association and has been endorsed by  former Mississippi Gov. William Winter. The book was published in November 2006 by Season of Harvest Publications.

                                                   – Gracie Hart ’08