The Call of Zulina
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Authors: Kay Marshall Strom
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The Call of Zulina
Copyright © 2009 by Kay Marshall Strom
ISBN-13: 978-1-4267-0069-9
Published by Abingdon Press, P. O. Box 801, Nashville, TN 37202
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is purely coincidental.
Published in association with the Books & Such Literary Agency,
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Cover design by Anderson Design Group, Nashville, TN
Cover illustration by Taaron Parsons
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Strom, Kay Marshall, 1943-
The call of Zulina / Kay Marshall Strom.
p. cm. -- (Grace in Africa ; bk. 1)
ISBN 978-1-4267-0069-9 (alk. paper)
1. Women--Africa, West--Fiction. 2. Slave trade--Fiction. 3. Slave insurrections--Fiction. 4. Africa, West--History--To 1884--Fiction. I. Title.
PS3619.T773C35 2009
813’.6--dc22
2009014253
Printed in the United States of America
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 / 14 13 12 11 10 09
Acknowledgements
My deep appreciation to my dear friend Rene Mbongo
who first took me to Goree Island in Senegal and stood
with silent dignity as I walked through the horrible
reality of one of the launching points for millions upon
millions of slaves shipped to the plantations of the New
World, including America. The fictitious Zulina is
modeled after the slave house there.
I also recognize John Newton, slave ship captain
turned abolitionist and author of the hymn Amazing
Grace. It was while writing his biography that I
learned of the English/African couple who inspired the
characters of Joseph Winslow and Lingongo.
Thank you to my husband, Dan Kline, my chief
encourager, main editor and critic, and my best friend.
H
ot, dry harmattan winds swept across the African savanna and awakened the yellow-brown sand, whipping it up with wild gusts that swirled and soared high into the air. The sandy clouds that blew in with the first shards of daybreak to shroud the dawn in grit refused to release their grip, and by late afternoon a thick layer of dust coated the entire landscape. Irritated goats paused in their search for edible blades of grass to stomp and shake themselves, and the children who herded them scratched at the itchy grit in their own eyes and hair. On the road, donkeys turned their heads away from the sandy wind and refused to pull their loads. Impatient masters swiped at their own faces as they whipped at the donkeys’ flanks, but all that accomplished was to send still more billows of dust into the air.