"From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond" by Daniel Arthur Rudd, Theophilus Bond is an inspirational and heart-wrenching tale of a man who managed to move up in life from the horrors of slavery to wealth and self-actualization. Scott Bond rose from being born a slave in Madison County, Mississippi, in the early 1850s to wealth and status as a farmer, merchant, and business entre-preneur in Madison, Arkansas, by the early 1900s.