I’m thrilled to have fellow Scrivenings Press author, Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock with us today sharing about her new release, God, Send Sunday. Stick around for a chance to win a PRINT COPY of this inspirational historical novel!
GOD, SEND SUNDAY
Heroine of God, Send Sunday, Sunday Duval’s belief in the permanence of God’s promises and provision is shattered as she watches a slave speculator kill her freeborn parents when she was six. Shielded to the extent that she’s never even seen a white person and having been assured by her father that her freedom was secured by God, she feels betrayed when she finds herself in a tobacco field in southern Virginia.
Over time and ever practical minded, Sunday decides to call a mental truce with the practice of slavery, but not with God. For her, God becomes the six-year relationship with freedom which, when she needed it most, turned out to be a mirage. She becomes incensed by what she views as African-Americans’ wrongheaded faith in the Trinity. There is no Christian God for blacks. There never has been. There never will be. And she is at a loss as to why her husband and the other tobacco-farming slaves would believe otherwise. Loving her son, July, with her entire being, Sunday, makes the boy an idolatrous recipient of her love and further denounces the One True God.
When her husband, a believer, suggests they join the Underground Railroad, she is further outraged and flatly refuses. This results in his leaving her and their son until he can amorphously “send for them.” An idea doomed to fail. Sunday encourages him to go with the veiled lie that she, along with July, would be happy to join him later in his quest for freedom.
But when Sunday herself is stolen and forced down-country to the cotton fields as part of a coffle, she is nearly destroyed when she realizes that she cannot orchestrate—not even partly—her own life. July is now without a mother or father. In painful fits and starts, she recognizes that her inner soul needs sustenance, and it is the God that so enthralled the rest of the slaves that she finally turns to.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Jacqueline Freeman Wheelock’s historical novels share the narratives of African American women seeking their identities in the difficult setting of the old South. A former high school and college English teacher, her first novel, A Most Precious Gift, debuted in 2014 and made Amazon’s Best Seller list in African American Historical Fiction.
Wheelock is a multi-genre author whose works range from short stories and devotionals to a memoir of growing up during and after segregation. Published multiple times by University Press of Mississippi, she has been a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers for over a decade. Jacqueline and her husband Donald have two adult children and two granddaughters.
A Most Precious Gift
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In Pursuit of an Emerald
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The Lords of Wensy Wells
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God, Send Sunday
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THE GIVEAWAY!
Now’s your chance to enter to win a PRINT COPY of God, Send Sunday. by entering the Rafflecopter Giveaway below! (US addresses only)
Yes, I have read a book from the perspective of a slave. This book sounds amazing.
Thanks, Barbara! I haven’t yet read it, but I know she’s a gifted author. Hope you’ll enjoy reading it.
I have read Lynn Austin’s Refiners Fire Series but I don’t think the perspective is all from the slaves but seems like some of it was. I read them several years ago and loved them. I would love to read this book. Matter of fact I already put it on my to buy list before I saw you were giving one away. I would love to win.
Wonderful! The best to you in the giveaway, Brenda. Thanks for sharing. Lynn Austin is such a good author.
Hi, Brenda,
Lynn Austin is a fine writer! Thank you so much for your comments. I’d absolutely love to hear from you when you read God, Send Sunday! Blessings, Jacqueline
Thank you so much for the encouragement! I sincerely hope you will read and review.
J. Wheelock
No, I have not read a novel that gives the outlook from a slave’s perspective.
I haven’t either, Linda. But it sounds intriguing. Thanks for stopping by.
Hi, Linda,
Thanks for taking the time to share! You are not alone in terms of your reading experience with slave narratives. I’m just thrilled to see your interest! I sincerely hope you will take this as an opportunity to see through a slave’s eyes. All blessings, Jacqueline
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Hi, bn100,
I would be grateful and thrilled to have you read God, Send Sunday! If you should decide to, please let me know what you think. 🙂 J. Wheelock
I haven’t yet, either. But I hope to. =) Thanks for entering!
Hi, no I have not, I love books from the Civil War and Pre Civil Era. Thank you so much for the chance at this great sounding book. Have a great week.
The Civil War era is a favorite of mine to read (and write) about too, Alicia. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great week as well.
Thank you so much for the encouragement! You are quite welcome. Happy you stopped by.
This sounds like a compelling read. I hate to admit that it is part of America’s history. In God all people are created free and equal. I have always been brought up with that in mind. People should be known for what is in their heart and lives not in their skin color. Thank you for sharing. God bless you.
I agree. It was a sad time in our history, Debra. And you are so right. The Lord never intended people to be judged by their skin color or anything but their heart.
Debra, you are so welcome! I’m excited and encouraged by your comments.
Wow! Sounds like a powerful read. Thank you for sharing. Adding to my wish list.
Yes, I have read a book from a slave’s perspective. Breaks my heart as we are all created in the image of God.
Amen to that, Lucy! It truly is heartbreaking.
Thanks for your comment, Lucy. Means a lot. I hope you get to read the book. Blessings, Jacqueline
Good to hear, Lucy! Thanks for stopping by to enter and comment!