ed in the hopes of ending the friction and tension between the two. Afterall, black or white, we are all humans.Leon F. Litwack, author of Been In The Storm So Long, was born in Santa Barbra,California. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received hisB.A., M.A., and Ph.D. He is currently Professor of History at this university. Otheruniversities he has taught at are University of Wisconsin, South Carolina, and at ColoradoCollege. Litwack has held the Guggenheim Fellowship, a Distinguished Teaching Award,and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant. His latest book is the Troublein Mind. Tears rolled down my face through out Been In The Storm So Long. It brought tomy attention the cruel and unbearable treatment that one human being could give to another. I had to pause to keep the nausea down after reading a part in the book where aslave recalls her master grabbing a gun to shoot all the slaves in the field. It only gave mea weary feeling when the slave said, weuns starts runnin and screamin,cause weunshas brothers and sisters in de fild (10). I imagined those brothers and sisters as youngchildren at the age of nine and ten. I was angered on how one human believed they couldown another human. To who in the world gave them the right to think that. I wasdisgusted. This book lead me on a journey that I believe all Americans should read about. To me, it was a disgrace to belong to such a country in which slavery existed.Been In The Storm Long is a tremendous assist to our learning about our history and inhopes of not making the same mistake twice....
