Author: David Bruce Grim
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491733969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Twenty-three year old Callie has lived in bondage at Oakheart Plantation since her birth. She has become a valuable asset to her cruel master, Daniel Bowen, but Callie, her two brothers, and her young daughter struggle to cope with the outrages of enslavement. Change occurs suddenly on November 7, 1861, when the Union Navy attacks Port Royal Sound in South Carolina. Slavery ends across the surrounding sea islands after the planters flee. Ten thousand newly freed people, like Callie and her family, begin life under the authority of the US government. A historical novel based on actual events from 1861 to 1863, Swift Currents describes the slaves transition from bondage to freedom through the lens of Callie and her two brothers. As they and others pursue education, work for wages, fight for freedom, and become landowners, their lives intersect with civilian and military authorities. Callies story seeks to help the nation come to terms with its racial history and serves to provide a greater understanding of shared stories, thus lessening the inherited prejudice of generations.
Swift Currents
Author: David Bruce Grim
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491733969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Twenty-three year old Callie has lived in bondage at Oakheart Plantation since her birth. She has become a valuable asset to her cruel master, Daniel Bowen, but Callie, her two brothers, and her young daughter struggle to cope with the outrages of enslavement. Change occurs suddenly on November 7, 1861, when the Union Navy attacks Port Royal Sound in South Carolina. Slavery ends across the surrounding sea islands after the planters flee. Ten thousand newly freed people, like Callie and her family, begin life under the authority of the US government. A historical novel based on actual events from 1861 to 1863, Swift Currents describes the slaves transition from bondage to freedom through the lens of Callie and her two brothers. As they and others pursue education, work for wages, fight for freedom, and become landowners, their lives intersect with civilian and military authorities. Callies story seeks to help the nation come to terms with its racial history and serves to provide a greater understanding of shared stories, thus lessening the inherited prejudice of generations.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491733969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Twenty-three year old Callie has lived in bondage at Oakheart Plantation since her birth. She has become a valuable asset to her cruel master, Daniel Bowen, but Callie, her two brothers, and her young daughter struggle to cope with the outrages of enslavement. Change occurs suddenly on November 7, 1861, when the Union Navy attacks Port Royal Sound in South Carolina. Slavery ends across the surrounding sea islands after the planters flee. Ten thousand newly freed people, like Callie and her family, begin life under the authority of the US government. A historical novel based on actual events from 1861 to 1863, Swift Currents describes the slaves transition from bondage to freedom through the lens of Callie and her two brothers. As they and others pursue education, work for wages, fight for freedom, and become landowners, their lives intersect with civilian and military authorities. Callies story seeks to help the nation come to terms with its racial history and serves to provide a greater understanding of shared stories, thus lessening the inherited prejudice of generations.
The Current
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Sudden Death
Author: Leesa Culp
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459705467
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A true story of hockey heartbreak, tragedy, and triumph. Limited time offer. Sudden Death brings to life the incredible ongoing saga of the Swift Current Broncos hockey team. After a tragic game-day bus accident on December 30, 1986, left four of its star players dead, the first-year Western Hockey League team was faced with nearly insurmountable odds against not only its future success but its very survival. The heartbreaking story made headlines across North America, and the club garnered acclaim when it triumphantly rebounded and won the Canadian Hockey League’s prestigious Memorial Cup in 1989. Many of the surviving Broncos continued their successful hockey careers in the NHL, among them 2012 Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Sakic, Sheldon Kennedy, and Sudden Death co-author Bob Wilkie. Years later the Broncos’ tragedy-to-triumph tale was overshadowed when the team’s former coach, Graham James, was convicted of sexual assault against Sheldon Kennedy, Theoren Fleury, and Todd Holt, all of whom played for him.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459705467
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A true story of hockey heartbreak, tragedy, and triumph. Limited time offer. Sudden Death brings to life the incredible ongoing saga of the Swift Current Broncos hockey team. After a tragic game-day bus accident on December 30, 1986, left four of its star players dead, the first-year Western Hockey League team was faced with nearly insurmountable odds against not only its future success but its very survival. The heartbreaking story made headlines across North America, and the club garnered acclaim when it triumphantly rebounded and won the Canadian Hockey League’s prestigious Memorial Cup in 1989. Many of the surviving Broncos continued their successful hockey careers in the NHL, among them 2012 Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Sakic, Sheldon Kennedy, and Sudden Death co-author Bob Wilkie. Years later the Broncos’ tragedy-to-triumph tale was overshadowed when the team’s former coach, Graham James, was convicted of sexual assault against Sheldon Kennedy, Theoren Fleury, and Todd Holt, all of whom played for him.
Lower Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers Navigation Feasibility Report, Kentucky Lock Addition
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Lower Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, Kentucky Lock Addition
Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
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Category : Cumberland River (Ky. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Cumberland River (Ky. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Annual Reports of the War Department
Author: United States. War Department
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Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Report of the Chief of Engineers
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year ...
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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