We Call Our Daddy “Mister” In Defiance of Convention - Life & Times at the Rose Hill Plantation By James Schell ISBN 1-4276-0692-7 Biography & Autobiography / African American Studies / Family / Relationships The HiBisCUn Press · November 2006 6 x 9 · Paperback · 278 pp · Our price     $ 19.65         Quantity   We Call Our Daddy "Mister" chronicles the story of Burrell Harrell, the son of a Confederate soldier. Harrell refused to abide by the customs and traditions of the Stars and Bars. He “took up” with a mulatto woman who bore him nine “white” children, five boys and four girls. They lived as a family in Georgia, contrary to custom and law. Harrell took on all comers to safeguard his children. His children were not accepted as white; they lived a difficult life being neither white nor black, but were conditioned culturally as black. "Mister Burrell" loved his family but toward the end of his life, he willed all of his belongings to a nephew - the son of a profligate brother - leaving his family without land or legal means to prosper. The holdings of Mister Burrell were about 2000 acres, 500 hundred head of cattle, and a whole creek. Probate of the will disclosed the probability of second, more recent will, allowing his heirs and Harrell's children to challenge the first will. Though the challenges were successfully fought off by the nephew, he lived in fear of having to give up land. Two of Burrell's daughters, 86 and 78 years old in 2006, still live on land previously owned by their Daddy. These very lands were recently bought by the State of Georgia and leased to the KIA Corporation of Korea to manufacture automobiles. The state paid Burrell Harrell $145.00 an acre in 1965; today the same land is valued at $12,500 per acre. Their hopes are that they will be compensated eventually. James E. Schell is a retired Federal Government and Industry Executive, now in his fourth career. His experience ranges from teaching to creating publications in technical and doctrinal domains, to serving as a Director in Industry as well as winning a Presidential Appointment as Senior Executive, Director of Tactical Computer Systems and Software Engineering Centers, US Army. Mr. Schell has written three memoirs - Aunt Nora --The Lives and Times of a Wise Woman; Moi; and Talk, various short stories, numerous technical papers, a travel log Trekking through France, and two children’s books, Beepy and JATO. A graduate of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Schell studied Business Administration, and graduate level Anthropology and Genetics at California State University, Northridge. He is certificated in Executive Management from University of California, Berkeley, and Executive Development from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was awarded the Doctor of Laws Honorary Degree in 1984 from his alma mater for his work in initiating Computer Science and Software Engineering Technology (under Federal Sponsorship) Curricula in Historically Black Colleges and Universities starting in 1981. Mr. Schell and his wife live in Ocean Hills, California. They have five adult children and seven grandchildren.

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