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Book VII is a distinctive and compelling free verse monologue about the horrors and devastating effects of slavery on the victims as well as the perpetrators of that wicked and debilitating institution. It is about the mental and psychological hardships experienced by each slave. The voice tells the story of their journey from West Africa across the Middle Passage to their respective ports. The reader hears a sad and compelling tale about a young woman who has been raped by her master and then beaten.Willem, the anonymous voice, appears, and the poet alludes to the idea that he, Willem, serves as one of the architects of slavery. He is the voice that appears everywhere and nowhere. This section is, most importantly, about the devastating lives and shattered dreams of the victims during and after emancipation.The voice is compassionate as well as healing and the language concise and transparent.

Evangelism in the twenty-first century and beyond is a call and challenge for the African American in our post-modern world, and specifically for the Black church in South Texas. Modernity beckons the African American to break ties with its history, a history that is intricately tied to liberation of the past and present. As we look toward our future, the Kingdom of God will have to be retold in a way that awakens the souls of an exiled people. The wave of crises in this century lies within the fact that a large number of Black churches are closing its doors around the country, just recently in New Orleans. The same fate is being felt in the Black churches in South Texas. The effective witness of the Gospel is the challenge and measure for the small church. Evangelism in the twenty-first century and beyond is a call and challenge for the African American in our post-modern world, and specifically for the Black church in South Texas.