Freedom Road Author:Howard Fast "Freedom Road" is the remarkable novel (originally published in 1944) of Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave with a magnificent dream. He meant to form a community of blacks and whites on a lush, deserted plantation, under the burning crosses of the dread Ku Klux Klan. — "No other novel about race relations carries the strength of characterization, hist... more »orical setting, and moving honesty of Freedom Road." Newsweek