Manassas: A Novel of the Civil War - Brossura

Sinclair, Upton; Gramm, Kent; United States Civil War Center

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ISBN 10: 0817310444 ISBN 13: 9780817310448

Casa editrice: Univ of Alabama Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Manassas: A Novel of the War centers on the moral dimension of the conflict as it traces a young Mississippi boy's conversion from pro-slavery Southerner to abolitionist Union soldier.
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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L'autore:

Upton Sinclair was born in 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the author of 80 books, and his 1942 novelDragon's Teeth won a Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1968. Kent Gramm is the professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois

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Book by Sinclair Upton

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Alabama Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0817310444
• ISBN 13: 9780817310448
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 412