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Manassas by Upton Sinclair & Kent Gramm
A Novel of the Civil War
Allan Montague, born on a Mississippi plantation about twenty years before the Civil War, has grown up with slavery and considers it natural. When his father moves to Boston for business and takes the boy with him, young Allan carries a knife given to him by his cousin to use in killing abolitionists. The first abolitionist young Allan meets in Boston is Levi Coffin, the reputed founder of the Underground Railroad. In this first of many meetings with historical figures, Allan forms a friendship with Coffin, who eventually takes him to hear a speech by former slave Frederick Douglass. Douglass's powerful words cement Allan's transformation into an abolitionist -- a transformation that will lead him back to his Deep South home with the hope of freeing slaves and eventually back to the North and the fateful Battle of Manassas. |
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| Author(s) : Upton Sinclair & Kent Gramm | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0817310444 | ISBN-13 : 9780817310448 |
| RRP : £14.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Classics of Civil War Fiction
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 31/05/2000
Publisher : The University of Alabama Press
Page Length : 448mm
Page Size : 215mm