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Suthers, Hannah Louise Bonsey was born on October 4, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, United States. Daughter of William Edwin and Hannah Elisabeth Bonell B.
(Finalist in USA Book News National "Best Books 2007" Awar...)
Finalist in USA Book News National "Best Books 2007" Awards! ´Not by force but by good will´ reads the inscription over the gate of a market farm in Puteoli, Roman Campania. Quintus the master lives by these words. Lucan his slave defies them. Both are nearly destroyed by them. The fugitive slave Lucan, seeking asylum, crashes the farm gate of Good Will, and Quintus rescues him. ´Slaves, serve your master as you would your Lord,´ Lucan is told. How can he possibly do that? Quintus sows discontent among his sixteen slaves by choosing Lucan for a companion. Letitia the young slave girl refuses to grow up in defense against the deprived farm slaves. She eyes Lucan and longs for her inevitable marriage to be a bond, not a bondage. An insidious bet regarding Lucan convulses the farm and he runs to the safety of the church. But the church will not let him live a lie. The historical novel, Not By Force But By Good Will, resurrects the grass roots of the fourth Century Roman empire. Like the farmer Quintus, three-fourths of the free populace are rustics, and like Lucan, two-thirds of the populace are slaves. The Emperor Constantine´s foreign war and civil war triumphs and edicts have momentous impact on Quintus. The draft leaches the farmland of his brothers and their men to defend an overextended front. Excessive production quotas exhaust the soil. Taxes to support the state, to build churches and Constantinople, the New Rome in the East, gut him. Nor can Quintus escape; the Colonate law binds farmers and slaves to the land as serfs. Failing to meet his production and tax quotas, Quintus faces prison, and confiscation of his land and household by the state into vast plantations. Since no free person would marry a serf, anyone seducing or cohabiting with a slave, and the family, are threatened by Constantine´s morality edicts with the death penalty and seizure of land. Only Lucan ca
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Suthers, Hannah Louise Bonsey was born on October 4, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, United States. Daughter of William Edwin and Hannah Elisabeth Bonell B.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1953. Master of Science equivalent in biology, Oberlin College, 1998. Master of Arts equivalent in theology, Oberlin College, 1998.
Secretary, clerk Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1953-1954. Nursery school teacher Berkeley (California) Unified School District, 1954-1955. Secretary/clerk Church Division School of Pacific, 1955.
Nursery school teacher Edgewood People's Church, East Lansing, Michigan, 1964-1965. Overseas missionary Protestant Episcopal Church, Brazil, 1965-1968. Laboratory technical Princeton (New Jersey) Laboratories, Inc., 1968.
Professional research staff Princeton University, 1968-1989, professional technical staff, 1989-1996. Reviewer American Journal Botany, 1971—1973, 1983, North America Bird Bander, since 1977. Area representative Princeton University, 1978—1980, 1982—1989.
Coordinator committee Princeton University Women's Organization, 1982—1989. Consultant Bracco Research United States of America, Inc., Princeton, 1996—2009, Williams Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corporation, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 1996—2003, Federal Maritime Commission Corporation, Princeton, 1997—2001, Allelix Neurosci., Inc., Cranbury, New Jersey, 1997—1999, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products, Inc., Skillman, New Jersey, 1998—2008, Purdue Pharma LP, Cranbury, 1999—2004.
(Finalist in USA Book News National "Best Books 2007" Awar...)
Bird bander United States Geological Survey, since 1953. Leader Bits and Boots 4-H Horse Club, Mercer County, New Jersey, 1969—1975. County coach Mercer County 4-H Competitive Trail Ride and Mercer County 4-H Horse Judging Team, 1973—1975.
Representative Mercer County Horse Council, 1970—1975. Member Migratory Bird Rehabilitation Policy and Permit Review Committee,, 1988—1990, others. Participant New Jersey Audubon Breeding Bird Atlas, 1980—1985, 1991—1995.
Trainer North America Banding Council, since 1998. Volunteer consultant Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, 1997. Volunteer State of New Jersey Wildlife Conservation Corps, since 2000.
Member Sigma Xi.
Married Derwent Albert Suthers, June 20, 1953 (divorced October 1968). Children: Daniel Derwent, Hannah Marie Suthers McCabe, Edwin Bonsey.