![]() ![]() “There are rich portions of our history that weren’t being explored, so that was purposeful on my part,” Huguley said recently by phone. One, The Preacher’s Promise, won Huguley a pair of Emma Awards at The Romance Slam Jam in Dallas last spring. ![]() In Home to Milford College, the first trio of stories are focused on African-American teachers and preachers in the early 20th century. ![]() Piper Huguley, a professor at Spelman College, grew tired of hearing the misconceptions and wanted to set the record straight, so she poured an affinity for facts and joy for romance into her own series of books. “There just wasn’t a lot written by African-Americans back then.” “No such thing as college-educated black women in the 1860s.” “Beverly Jenkins is already writing African-American-themed historical romances, so why bother?” ![]()
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