Reap the Whirlwind: A Documentary of Early Michigan

REAP THE WHIRLWIND is a documented historical novel of life in the Michigan Territory and the State of Michigan from 1795 to 1866.

Included are numerous Michigan settlements and towns, their historical characters and the part they played in the developing area. Events revolve about the tempestuous Parker family as they travel to Michigan via the Erie Canal and lake steamer to the frontier town of Detroit. There they experience a kidnapping and witness criminal punishment at the public whipping post and gallows. The Parkers have strong anti-slavery convictions which they pursue with their friends in the Quaker settlement of Adrian. A member of the family serves as a Methodist circuit rider and Indian missionary as he makes his home in Owosso and travels the Michigan wilderness. Numerous documented events relating to Indian life, cases of Underground Railroad Negro escapes to freedom and Civil War battles are presented as seen through the eyes of the Parker family. A Michigan Sesquicentennial book.