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Wolves of Freedom

Wolves of Freedom

ByMark Randolph Watters

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Wolves of Freedom, a novel in two parts, chronicles the innocent perspectives of two young boys navigating their way within a culture and a force beyond their natural, youthful naivete, beyond their untarnished comprehensions. This is a tale of two boys born on the same day, on the same plantation, but into two starkly different worlds, one boy (Avery King) the youngest son of a Georgia plantation slaver, the other (Crispus Luke) born into slavery, his mother a kidnapped free black. In Part One: Distant Thunder, these boys, as diverse in their cultures and backgrounds as any two could be in their day, bound together by their same birthdate, their mutual curiosities, and an overwhelming sense of tenacity and desire to understand and survive in an increasingly hostile world, like wolves, they learn together the great, complex, and harsh history that preceded them, the history that set the stage for the country’s violent evolution, such history transforming the nation into the Founders' vision of "a more perfect Union", the history which is also on the cusp of unraveling the country, perhaps destroying it. Part Two: Raging Storm follows these boys into the cataclysmic eruption of civil war and the roles they assume in defense and support of the causes of Union and the eradication of slavery. The novel ventures into the complexities and the rippling bitterness of Reconstruction, a torn nation struggling for reconciliation, issues that haunt Americans to this day. Wolves of Freedom is a tale of love, of sacrifice, of friendship among those forbidden to be friends, of innocence held captive by the social evils of its day, a tale anchored by the history, by the enduring words and deeds of our nation's Founders, and by the documents they produced that continue to drive our "experiment" toward a more perfect Union.

Details

Publication Date
Oct 29, 2023
Language
English
ISBN
9781304971159
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Mark Randolph Watters

Specifications

Pages
654
Binding Type
Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

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