Charles McRaven

Night Children

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Produktbeschreibung

Orphaned 1840s Mississippi sisters Kate, Jenny and Susan Blaine work their subsistence farm themselves. Young Susie witnesses a brutal, unspeakable act by a drunken plantation overseer, followed later by the sisters harboring a young runaway slave girl with scars and only a memorized name. They find an ally in a planter's wife, who helps them in the unlikely work of aiding a secret abolitionist movement. The punishment for helping is hanging, but the three are resourceful, armed and deadly. For years they are undetected in this nighttime smuggling, doing whatever is necessary in what they see as God's work. Their charges are varied: a valued blacksmith, field hands, maids, even an aging butler, all risking everything to gain the common goal of precious freedom. War comes, and they must survive against raiding, foraging, even hiding wounded soldiers of both sides.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wings ePress, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9798891979741
• Artikelnr.: 74034713

Autorenporträt

Charles McRaven has been called an 'active historian'. He is a skilled log cabin builder, stonemason, timber framer, blacksmith, and consultant on historic structures as well as pastor of a small, rural church. Rev. McRaven writes about people who work with their hands, those who are close to the land. He is also a former journalism college professor and newspaper editor. He and his wife Linda, a former National Geographic picture editor, live in the woods in central Virginia.