By Viviane Faver
The year 2020 is giving us several lessons. Amid the virus crisis, the world stopped to protest against racism. People from all over the world, from various origins, gathered to solve this problem and are trying to find solutions to end this injustice.
With this in mind, author Parker J Cole started writing medieval, Gregorian, and Victorian fiction centered on black and multiethnic characters. She researched black history. While studying, she made extraordinary discoveries that blacks were, for example, in Victorian and medieval times in different countries of the world, who were not only slaves but also held important positions in society.
For example, composers George Bridgetower and Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges made an excellent contribution to classical music in medieval Europe, and Anton Wilhelm Amo, who was a philosopher from Ghana and was a professor at Helle and Jena in Germany after studying there, among many others.
These discoveries led him to complete his most recent work, The Butterscotch Bride, a pre-war novel set in Alabama. The book tells of the love of two enslaved people in a unique way that focuses not only on the struggle of African Americans in the United States but also on their character strength in adverse times.
“Yes, there was oppression, but oppression is not the end of the story. In Butterscotch Bride, I wanted to focus more on strength than on fighting, hope instead of despair and forgiveness instead of judgment, “says Parker J Cole.
She adds that there will be more books like The Butterstoch Bride in Medieval Europe or the USA, but all over the world. “My agent is currently in negotiations with a publisher about them. I intend to change the narrative in a way that shows that we were more than enslaved people, but people with power”.
The Butterscotch Bride is now available in major online bookstores.
