What They Called Freedom
A Cult Survival Novel Inspired by Peoples Temple and Jonestown By Frank Coulter
Length2h 47m
About this audiobook
She crossed an ocean to escape a country that had never wanted her alive. What is the true price of being promised, at last, a home?
Della Mae Whitfield came to Peoples Temple the way thousands of Black Americans did in the 1970s — drawn by a white preacher who put Black faces in the front pews, fed the hungry, and called integration a sacrament. She gave the movement her savings, her name, her children, believing each surrender brought her closer to a promised land in the Guyanese jungle. By the time she understood the paradise was a cage, the rehearsals for death already had a name.
What They Called Freedom follows one woman from a genuine welcome to the morning that took nearly everyone she loved — restoring the story a country flattened into a punchline to the people who actually died: overwhelmingly Black, overwhelmingly women and children, betrayed first by a nation and then by the man who promised to save them from it.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Mystery and Thriller
Length2 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 14, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Disclaimer: while grounded in documented case dynamics, certain scenes and dialogue have been dramatized for narrative effect.
2Introduction — The Rehearsal
3Chapter 1 — The Front Pew
4Chapter 2 — All Night Long
5Chapter 3 — Catharsis
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6Chapter 4 — The Letter from the Government
7Chapter 5 — Whose Child
8Chapter 6 — Passage to the Garden
9Chapter 7 — The Voice That Never Stopped
10Chapter 8 — Who Is Listening
11Chapter 9 — White Night
12Chapter 10 — Extended Care
13Chapter 11 — The Last Daylight
14Chapter 12 — The Pavilion
15Chapter 13 — Those Who Carried It Out
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