This work provides a historical review of the plight of African American people
in the United States presented by an eyewitness and family oral history historian
that began with his ancestors in Senegal, and the direct ties to the oppressive
plantation and Civil Rights history of South Carolina.

In this study, the author spare no weak thinking as he probes via a semi-auto-
biographical approach, the leagacy of oppression based on race; the process
of enslavement involving the European Trans Atlantic trade in human beings;
the politics of the South, the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement; conflicting
religious beliefs, and the relevancy of modern and ancient African history to
human history.

Mr. Boyd is a veteran of the U. S. Navy. His experience has included work as a
Design Engineer for the construction and maintenance of Nuclear Plants. He
has further expertise in the field of Bio-Medical Engineering. He is an alumnus
of Chester Senior High School (Chester, South Carolina), Central Piedmont
Community College, and Johnson C. Smith University (Charlotte, North Carolina).
He presently lives in Southern California.