Slavery to Sovereignty-The Newell Family Legacy: A Jamaican Story of Survival and Endurance - Paperback
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Slavery to Sovereignty: The Newell Family Legacy A Jamaican Story of Survival and Endurance
Some families are broken by history. The Newell family was built by it.
This is the story of one Jamaican family traced from the final years of slavery in the Parish of Saint Dorothy through emancipation and migration into present-day America. It begins with an unnamed Creole ancestor - enslaved, undocumented, but undeniably present - and follows seven generations of men and women who refused to let their line be broken.
From Robert Henry Newell, the first in the family to appear by name in the historical record, to Joseph Alexander and Louisa Newell, who built a life and raised seven children on the land they owned in Bamboo Ridge, St. Catherine, this family survived everything history threw at them. Through Daniel and Hilda Newell, whose home in St. Catherine became a place of extraordinary love and open doors, to Gloria E. Newell-Carter, who crossed an ocean on February 9, 1968, leaving four children behind so they could one day have a future - the Newell story is one of sacrifice, resilience, and an unshakeable determination to build something lasting.
Researched and written by three daughters of Gloria E. Newell-Carter - Jackie Cooper, Tanya Hicks, and Ann M. Wittock-Brown - this book is both a family history and an act of restoration. It gives dignity to ancestors whose humanity was once reduced to partial records. It preserves the legacy of people who quietly carried their families forward - through labor, caregiving, faith, and love - often without recognition and rarely with thanks.
Slavery to Sovereignty is for every family member who has ever wondered where they came from. It is for every descendant who will one day hold these pages and need to know that their existence was not accidental - that it was earned, over generations, by people who gave everything so they could be here and belong.
You exist because they kept going.
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