Bonnie R. Stanard

Writer

Copyright Bonnie Stanard

Beaufort, SC
The Beaufort Bookstore
2127 Boundary St.
PH (843) 525-1066

Tilmon does what's expected to be respectable in his community, but loses the respect of his wife, children, and slaves.


brilliant work speaking honestly
of an unspeakable wrong

Chanticleer Review

One thing makes the slave Kedzie’s life worse when she gets help to escape the plantation. She’s in love with another slave who can’t accompany her. She has to make a choice.


A stellar, heart-wrenching chronicle of human bondage

Kirkus Review


Nobody wants a yellow baby, not the slaves and not the whites. Sonny is yellow.


A triumph of the storyteller’s art, rich with character and incident          

  — Steven Bauer

Tilmon, the indifferent father, maladroit manager, and cruel overlord, meets his fate.


teeming with life and death, with sorrow and joy

— Steven Bauer

Find my books at local Book Stores

Summerville, SC

Main Street Reads
115 S. Main Street
PH (843) 875-5171


1857-1860


Everybody hates somebody on the St. Helena Island plantation.

Beaufort, SC

McIntosh Book Shoppe
919 Bay Street
PH (843) 524-1119

Sumter, SC

Elephant's Ear Gallery
672 Bultman Dr,
PH (803) 773-2268


Gritty stories of the Antebellum South