"Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky: Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America: by Francis Fedric is the powerful story of a man enslaved in the US south. At a time when nothing was certain for Afri-can-Americans, from their location to their survival, the hope of one day being free was, at times, the only thing that allowed people to survive. This book gives grueling details on the horrible circumstances slaves were forced to live through.