Growing up in Alabama in the 1850s and ’60s as a slave is not the kind of life anybody in today’s world would envy. But Manny, a brilliant, gifted and deep-loving young man, emerges from this era as an unheralded inspiration to thousands—only to face a fate that could have erased everything he had worked for. His life bears a striking resemblance to another brilliant, gifted and deep-loving man who lived some two thousand years ago.
Whether they both lived and died in vain will be up to you, the reader.