SUMMARY OF RIVER SING ME HOME by Freya Haynes

This book is a summary of "river sing me home".contents of the summary are not poised to replace the original book. It is meant as a complement to enhance the reader's understanding.
Once again, the intention of this complimentary guide is to encourage the reader to get the original book to further their comprehension and understanding.
The master of the Providence farm in Barbados gathers his slaves and claims the monarch has ordered an end to slavery. As on the next day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into force. The yells of pleasure fall quiet when he explains that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must labor for him for another six years. Freedom is merely another word for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs.
Away from Providence, she starts a frantic effort to locate her children-the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The hard, deadly trek takes her from Barbados then, via river, deep into the wilderness of British Guiana and ultimately over the sea to Trinidad. She is spurred on by the feeling that a mother cannot be completely free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the tales of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the tale of Rachel and the remarkable extent to which a mother would go to recover her children...and her freedom.