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"Shed No Tears" came about as a result of my attending the Million Man March in Washington D.C. As I stood with my brothers listening to the speakers I was struck with this desire to know more about the brothers that surrounded me. Who were they? Were they truly men with no drive, no courage, and no contribution to the building of my nation? As each hour of that awesome day many revelations came to me, and I made a commitment to find out more about the people of my village.
Upon my return to Chicago I launched a research effort that one day will see print as "Black Than Yesterday", a non-fiction effort on my part to explore the contributions of people of color in the building and development of the United States of America. From that effort came the concept that would become "Shed No Tears".
Mingling actual historical events of the American Revolution, Shed No Tears introduces the reader to a collection of young men and women shaping their lives and a nation born from the wilderness of Colonial America. Jonathan Breckenridge, the patriotic rebel son of Boston s wealthiest candle maker; Zachary Clark, a man grounded in the earth, and the son of Charles Town s leading physician; Jackson Richards, the heir to Charles Town s largest plantation; and finally, Solomon Cooke, angry son of the maker of the most popular saddle in all of the North American colonies. Friends since childhood they are drawn even closer together, and eventually torn apart, by a common struggle against a far away King, and a greater struggle to convince their fellow citizens of the equality existing between all men. Shed No Tears is the interlocking saga of lives interwoven by fate, events and circumstances, and the winds of change. Historic, romantic, and haunting, Shed No Tears starts with the birth of a nation crippled by the hypocrisy of slavery, and ends in the classic style of toe to toe standoff between good and evil; idealism and greed; slavery and freedom; love and hate; and patriotism and treason.
