The Torture of Mothers Author:Truman Nelson "The Torture pf Mothers is a detailed account of the case which is now known as the case of The Harlem Six.... The tone is rare: I have come to expect it only of Southerners - since Southerners must pay so high a price for their private and their public liberation. But Mr. Nelson actually comes from New England, and is what another age would hav... more »e called an abolitionist.... I think the book is an extraordinary moral achievement, in the great American tradition of Tom Paine and Frederick Douglass." -- James Baldwin, The Nation
"The Torture of Mothers is symbolic of tortured, brutalized and oppressed black souls everywhere. It is a chilling account of how black people in America are so easily trampled upon by police power and sent to prison and to death on fabricated indictments and convictions. It is a replica of the heavy burden black women in this so-called democracy are forced to bear because her black man is castrated of his manhood from the time he enters of the cradle." -- Sylvester Leakes, Harlem Writer's Guild« less