Ulysses

Ulysses, the first book of the American Odyssey trilogy, is the story of a black man of heroic proportions, who after escaping slavery, goes on an American Odyssey riding a blue-black Morgan horse through the pages of history.

At the age of six Ulysses begins his life of servitude as a field hand on a South Carolina cotton plantation. After the same sadistic overseer that killed his father rapes his mother the two of them are brought to the house as servants and Ulysses becomes a stable boy. Life is good for Ulysses and his mother for several years.

When he is forced to return to the fields at the age of sixteen to pick cotton Ulysses confronts the overseer and kills him. He escapes into the night with horses and eludes patrols to eventually find his way to the Seminole Tribe in Florida.

Ulysses becomes a Seminole warrior under the leadership of Survivor Tustenugee who teaches Ulysses to read and write and to fight the U.S. Army. When the Seminole are finally forced to surrender Ulysses slips off to avoid slavery and continue his odyssey of freedom