a page of human history
Kate was born in the South of the United States and married to an Alabama planter, twenty years his senior, she gave birth to a little girl Helen.
We are in 1880, fifteen years after the Civil War in a country where the black slave is an overexploited and disrespected employee….It is another form of slavery.
Kate suffers from this situation and does not share the rejection expressed by her in-laws.
Terrible fevers occur shortly after the birth of this little girl Helen who becomes blind, deaf and mute.
Her loving parents do everything to help their daughter.
This one is fierce, undisciplined, wild….
The father even plans to have this “hellish” little girl interned as crazy.
The shadow is forever promised to this kid that no one can stand anymore.
The irony of history is that the light comes from the north of America, among the “yankees”
Miss Sullivan who comes from Boston, recruited, will take charge of taking control of this little girl based on research carried out by doctors and researchers.
Helen Keller will go far, she will be the first blind and deaf woman to obtain a university degree.
A socialist, “she campaigned all her life for women’s rights and peace. »
Although her mother, Kate, is little known, it is she who transmitted her empathy for humanity and her rejection of racism.
This book, which is a fiction, is based on the life of this American who settled down to rest in Concarneau and received “In 1952, on the occasion of the centenary of Louis Braille, France decorated her with the Legion of Honor in Paris. »
Jean-François Chalot
France
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