The Curse We Carried

<p><strong>The Curse We Carried</strong><br><em>A Novel by JoJo Penwood</em></p><p>In the heart of the Deep South one act of cruelty births a curse that echoes across centuries.</p><p>In 1812 as the flames of resistance smolder beneath the fields of the Whitlow plantation an enslaved African woman named Ama N'Doye whispers a final incantation-an ancestral curse meant not only to mark those who enslaved her people but to bind memory to blood.</p><p><em>The Curse We Carried</em> is a sweeping intergenerational saga that follows two American families-the white Whitlows descended from slave owners and the Black Boones descended from Ama. Across seven generations the novel explores how trauma guilt silence and spiritual unrest are passed down like heirlooms hidden in dreams buried in addictions and etched into the soul of a nation trying to forget.</p><p>From the dark days of slavery and the chaos of the Civil War to the battlegrounds of Civil Rights and the uncertainty of the modern age each generation must reckon with the ghosts they inherit. But in the seventh generation as two unlikely descendants cross paths-one Black one white-buried truths surface and healing at last becomes possible.</p><p>Powerful poetic and spiritually haunting <em>The Curse We Carried</em> is a story of memory and mourning of inherited pain and long-delayed redemption. It is about the chains we carry the voices we silence and the deep work of remembering before release.</p>