LEAVING THE PLANTATION

About the Book

Imagine your life being so hard and so bleak that all you had to look forward to was dying. This was the case for a little girl named Allis, who lived in the slave quarters of a Louisiana plantation in the old south. The only thing that made life bearable for the child was listening to her mama talk at night about a glorious place called Heaven that they would go to someday after all of Master’s cotton fields had been picked. As she listened, Allis was filled with an intense longing for a life where there was no pain or sorrow…no back-breaking work from sunup to sundown or the sting of a whip. While the little girl knew she would never be free in this life, Mama had instilled in her a belief that a better world was coming. Clinging to that hope, Allis toiled under a scorching summer sun alongside her mama, daydreaming about the day when she would leave the plantation for good. In the child’s mind, it couldn’t come soon enough.

About the Author

Lydia B. Miller is a Christian author living in Laguna Niguel, California with her husband, Roger. LEAVING THE PLANTATION is her fifth book, following ALMOST HEAVEN, published in 2016, LIKE THAT OLD MAN RIVER, published in 2019, WALKING IN THE GARDEN WITH GOD, published in 2023, and WRESTLING WITH GOD, published in 2025.