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"Reviews The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom was published in 2012: it was introduced to a standingroom-only audience; noted as the best seller of the month that September in the Louisville Courier-Journal; endorsed by Dr. Aukram Burton a Diversity/Multicultural Education Specialist and Consultant for the Jefferson County School District, Louisville, Kentucky; and assigned two semesters for Dr. Toni-Mokjaetji Humber's Ethnic Studies classes at California State University, Pomona California. Owens-Lalude was commissioned by Dr. Lonnetta M. Taylor-Gaines, a Louisville, Kentucky native, to speak to the Sarasota, Florida, historians and their youth group. She was featured in the Sarasota Community Central newspaper. A review of the The Long Walk, was published by Dr. Elizabeth A. Amin in the Louisville Medicine, a Journal of Greater Louisville Medical Society, Kentucky. ""Judith C. Owens-Lalude's The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom strikes at the heart of slavery's cruelty and intentional denigration of the human spirit. Clarissa and George Henry are freedom seekers. They represent the thousands along the Underground Railroad whose indomitable quest for freedom compelled them to find ingenious and remarkable ways to be free, despite the risk of capture, beatings, maiming, re-enslavement, and death. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom celebrates those heroes and heroines of the nineteenth century who might be unnamed, but not forgotten by a people grateful for their courage."" Dr. Toni-Mokiaetji Humber, Professor Emeritus, Ethnic Women's Studies Department, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, California ""Judith C. Owens-Lalude has woven a compelling story in The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom, Illustrating Kentucky's role as a borderline slave state major artery along the Underground Railroad. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom can be a significant resource for communities, administrators, and schools addressing historic methods and consequences of slavery-often ignored aspects of Kentucky history."" Dr. Aukram Burton, Diversity/Multicultural Education Specialist, Community Development and Governmental Relations, Louisville, Kentucky ""The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom Readers of all ages can relate to this profoundly moving story of overcoming obstacles. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom is not only compelling history, it's fascinating reading, too!"" Dr. Lonnetta M. Taylor-Gaines, New York and Florida, Educational Consultant and Author of. ""Fia and the Butterfly: Seven Stories of Character"""

Reviews The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom was published in 2012: it was introduced to a standingroom-only audience; noted as the best seller of the month that September in the Louisville Courier-Journal; endorsed by Dr. Aukram Burton a Diversity/Multicultural Education Specialist and Consultant for the Jefferson County School District, Louisville, Kentucky; and assigned two semesters for Dr. Toni-Mokjaetji Humber's Ethnic Studies classes at California State University, Pomona California. Owens-Lalude was commissioned by Dr. Lonnetta M. Taylor-Gaines, a Louisville, Kentucky native, to speak to the Sarasota, Florida, historians and their youth group. She was featured in the Sarasota Community Central newspaper. A review of the The Long Walk, was published by Dr. Elizabeth A. Amin in the Louisville Medicine, a Journal of Greater Louisville Medical Society, Kentucky. ""Judith C. Owens-Lalude's The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom strikes at the heart of slavery's cruelty and intentional denigration of the human spirit. Clarissa and George Henry are freedom seekers. They represent the thousands along the Underground Railroad whose indomitable quest for freedom compelled them to find ingenious and remarkable ways to be free, despite the risk of capture, beatings, maiming, re-enslavement, and death. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom celebrates those heroes and heroines of the nineteenth century who might be unnamed, but not forgotten by a people grateful for their courage."" Dr. Toni-Mokiaetji Humber, Professor Emeritus, Ethnic Women's Studies Department, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, California ""Judith C. Owens-Lalude has woven a compelling story in The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom, Illustrating Kentucky's role as a borderline slave state major artery along the Underground Railroad. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom can be a significant resource for communities, administrators, and schools addressing historic methods and consequences of slavery-often ignored aspects of Kentucky history."" Dr. Aukram Burton, Diversity/Multicultural Education Specialist, Community Development and Governmental Relations, Louisville, Kentucky ""The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom Readers of all ages can relate to this profoundly moving story of overcoming obstacles. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom is not only compelling history, it's fascinating reading, too!"" Dr. Lonnetta M. Taylor-Gaines, New York and Florida, Educational Consultant and Author of. ""Fia and the Butterfly: Seven Stories of Character""

Reviews The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom was published in 2012: it was introduced to a standingroom-only audience; noted as the best seller of the month that September in the Louisville Courier-Journal; endorsed by Dr. Aukram Burton a Diversity/Multicultural Education Specialist and Consultant for the Jefferson County School District, Louisville, Kentucky; and assigned two semesters for Dr. Toni-Mokjaetji Humber's Ethnic Studies classes at California State University, Pomona California. Owens-Lalude was commissioned by Dr. Lonnetta M. Taylor-Gaines, a Louisville, Kentucky native, to speak to the Sarasota, Florida, historians and their youth group. She was featured in the Sarasota Community Central newspaper. A review of the The Long Walk, was published by Dr. Elizabeth A. Amin in the Louisville Medicine, a Journal of Greater Louisville Medical Society, Kentucky. Judith C. Owens-Lalude's The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom strikes at the heart of slavery's cruelty and intentional denigration of the human spirit. Clarissa and George Henry are freedom seekers. They represent the thousands along the Underground Railroad whose indomitable quest for freedom compelled them to find ingenious and remarkable ways to be free, despite the risk of capture, beatings, maiming, re-enslavement, and death. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom celebrates those heroes and heroines of the nineteenth century who might be unnamed, but not forgotten by a people grateful for their courage. Dr. Toni-Mokiaetji Humber, Professor Emeritus, Ethnic Women's Studies Department, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, California Judith C. Owens-Lalude has woven a compelling story in The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom, Illustrating Kentucky's role as a borderline slave state major artery along the Underground Railroad. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom can be a significant resource for communities, administrators, and schools addressing historic methods and consequences of slavery-often ignored aspects of Kentucky history. Dr. Aukram Burton, Diversity/Multicultural Education Specialist, Community Development and Governmental Relations, Louisville, Kentucky The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom Readers of all ages can relate to this profoundly moving story of overcoming obstacles. The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom is not only compelling history, it's fascinating reading, too! Dr. Lonnetta M. Taylor-Gaines, New York and Florida, Educational Consultant and Author of. Fia and the Butterfly: Seven Stories of Character

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Judith C. Owens-Lalude is the great-granddaughter of George Henry ""Pap"" Johnson born in 1850 and enslaved with his mother, Clarissa. They lived on Ben Miller's 600-acre farm in North Central Kentucky, now less than an hour's drive from Louisville, Kentucky, where Owens-Lalude grew up and resided until 2017. After listening to tales told by her family's closest members about their ancestors, she wanted to know more and visited the farm where her ancestors had been enslaved. She strolled the grounds, reflected at the fireplace hearth where a slave cabin once stood, wandered along the streams and creeks, and photographed the barn and other outbuildings that were a part of her great-grandpa's and his mother's daily world. Inspired to write a book, Owens-Lalude traveled to her husband's native Nigeria for a better understanding of the history of slavery in the Americas. She wanted to know its impact on other Africans and African Americans, including her family who lived in Nelson and Spencer counties, Kentucky. She was also intrigued by the writings of Harry Smith, Fifty Years in Slavery in the United States and Isaac Johnson's Slavery Days in Old Kentucky. Both authors were enslaved in Jefferson, Nelson, and Spencer counties where Owens-Lalude's family was also enslaved and later lived as freed people. From these readings, her research, her travels, and her powerful imagination, Owens-Lalude wrote two compelling novels: The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom and Miss Lucy: Slave and Civil War Nurse. Judith C. Owens-Lalude is the great-granddaughter of George Henry ""Pap"" Johnson born in 1850 and enslaved with his mother, Clarissa. They lived on Ben Miller's 600-acre farm in North Central Kentucky, now less than an hour's drive from Louisville, Kentucky, where Owens-Lalude grew up and resided until 2017. After listening to tales told by her family's closest members about their ancestors, she wanted to know more and visited the farm where her ancestors had been enslaved. She strolled the grounds, reflected at the fireplace hearth where a slave cabin once stood, wandered along the streams and creeks, and photographed the barn and other outbuildings that were a part of her great-grandpa's and his mother's daily world. Inspired to write a book, Owens-Lalude traveled to her husband's native Nigeria for a better understanding of the history of slavery in the Americas. She wanted to know its impact on other Africans and African Americans, including her family who lived in Nelson and Spencer counties, Kentucky. She was also intrigued by the writings of Harry Smith, Fifty Years in Slavery in the United States and Isaac Johnson's Slavery Days in Old Kentucky. Both authors were enslaved in Jefferson, Nelson, and Spencer counties where Owens-Lalude's family was also enslaved and later lived as freed people. From these readings, her research, her travels, and her powerful imagination, Owens-Lalude wrote two compelling novels: The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom and Miss Lucy: Slave and Civil War Nurse.

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