Love does not always signify romance and fun. The dark side of love is tragedy and separation, coupled with the struggle to live together and to continue loving each other even in the face of societal opposition. Mydearvalentine provides a vivid synopsis of the collection of untold stories in Forbidden Fruit Love Story section from the Underground Railroad meant especially for the occasion of Valentine Day. This Valentine Day celebrate your love with your family and relate to the significance of love over a huge family gathering coupled with love stories.

Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating yet untold stories of ordinary men and women who played extraordinary roles by risking their life and limb for togetherness.

These are stories of couples who faced mobs and bloodhounds and even bullets to defy the system that allowed slave masters to treat people like cattle. Some broke taboos about interracial marriage.

In one noteworthy story, a Georgia couple took multiple disguises to flee slavery, sailed for England with bounty hunters and federal troops. In another remarkable story, a fugitive slave from Virginia spent seventeen arduous years searching for his lost wife. On the other hand a Missouri slave fell in love with his white Mormon neighbor and escaped to Canada in order to be able to live with her. His story gives a description of his arduous journey to find her in Canada, putting pepper in his shoes to throw dogs off the scent at night and hiding in trees by day.

Betty DeRamus garnered these amazing stories from descendants of such runaway slave couples who had suffered the miseries themselves, the other sources being unpublished memoirs, Civil War records, books, magazines, and dozens of other untapped sources. This important book written beautifully and compassionately reveals a shameful chapter of American history that is about triumph and torture in unison, achievement as well as degradation, and indomitable love as well as hatred.