Sugar In The Canefield

About the Book

I wrote this fiction/romance novel depicting the struggles and accomplishments of slaves and free blacks in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s in Louisiana. The French Napoleonic laws in Louisiana in the 1800’s did not allow slaves nor free blacks to inherit property. My novel has romance between mixed couples and a suspenseful twist at the end.

The novel depicts the discovering of oil underneath a sugar-cane plantation and how wealthy individuals and land barons try to steal property from a young mulatto woman who grew up on a sugar-cane plantation. After finding out about an affair her mother had with a white plantation owner she inherited the largest amount of land and plantations in Louisiana after her father passed away. As she was challenged in court by high powered, politically connected, wealthy land barons she discovered that her lawyer and the preceding judge on her case were on the side of the greedy land barons. After discovering missing legal documents and challenging the current French Napoleonic laws she prevailed in court and became one of the wealthiest female heroines of her time.

I grew up in Los Angeles, Calif. in South Central with a family background in Louisiana. I have Bachelor of Science degree’s in Sociology and History from Calif. State Unversity at Northridge in 1974. I now own a Consulting Company named “Vanlock” which consults with companies and makes deals around the globe from (1967-1989). I was recommended by former Calif. Govt. Gray Davis to a Beverly Hills Wall St. tycoon as his personal assistant for the last (22) years. I now owned a Consulting Company named “Vanlock” which consults with and makes deals around the globe.

About the Author

I grew up in Los Angeles, Calif. in South Central with a family background in Louisiana. I have Bachelor of Science degree’s in Sociology and History from Calif. State Unversity at Northridge in 1974. I spent (22) years and retired from Los Angeles Police Department from (1967-1989). I was recommended by former Calif. Govt. Gray Davis to a Beverly Hills Wall St. tycoon as his personal assistant for the last (23) years. I now owned a Consulting Company named “Vanlock” which consults with and makes deals around the globe.