Slavery has left a permanent impression upon the conscience of America, and created a terrible cancer that wounded the country's heart and soul for generations in both the North and the South. The land of the free, as we now know it, was not always so. Countless men and women were violently taken from their families and thrust into the throes of hard labor, unfamiliar surroundings, abuse, along with days and nights filled with inconsolable mourning. And yet, many experienced life in a way that their slave masters would have considered normal. They cared for their master's children, mended their clothing, prepared their food, and ironically became the backbone of their master's families. In Tears That Changed a Nation, you will learn the true story of our sordid past through the experiences of a remarkable former slave woman. Known as Aunt Minty, she lived 111 years and never learned to read nor write. At the time Arminta O'Banion was born, slavery had already become established in America. The first cargo ship of thirteen Africans arrived in St. Mary's City in 1642, and in 1664, Maryland legalized slavery. In 1783 Maryland prohibited the importation of slaves. The Maryland Gazette denounced the inequality in newly formed America, which promoted liberty and freedom while enslaving thousands. See Minty's life as being unusual, rather than a reflection of the lives of many other slave women. See through her the events and personages that caused the shedding of tears that brought changes to the nation. See her long life as she remembered it while picking up her wood chips along the shoreline of the Ohio River. See her view of life before and after the Civil War. Experience her life with her first master, Edmund Randolph, one of the Founding Fathers who was responsible for a motion that would later remove the word slavery from the Constitution. Learn of her recollections of others she served such as, General Green Clay, who was the ancestor, after whom Muhammad Ali was originally named. Learn what it was like to finally experience freedom and not know what to do with it. She wondered how her family would be accepted in the white society. They had no home of their own. All of their children born before their emancipation were still slaves of General Green. How could they leave them? Would society respect them? Would they respect themselves? Experience her story now. . . Show Less