Born at the Battlefield of Gettysburg.
Born At The Battlefield Of Gettysburg
Harriette Rinaldi
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Born At The Battlefield Of Gettysburg: An African-American Family Saga For the Icelandic family sagas, see .
The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time. is the true story of an African-American family that suffered from the unspeakable evil of slavery. The protagonist's mother was the daughter of free blacks in Philadelphia; kidnapped from her parents by slave catchers, she was enslaved Enslaved may refer to: - Slavery, the socio-economic condition of being owned and worked by and for someone else
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on a Virginia tobacco plantation tobacco plantation n → plantación f de tabaco; tabacal m for 37 years before making a daring escape to Gettysburg on the night before the historic Civil War battle ensued. She was nine months pregnant, and determined that her child would not be born a slave. Born At The Battlefield Of Gettysburg is an impressively in-depth, heavily researched and brutally accurate portrayal of the methods and means by which the monstrous evil of slavery was justified and perpetuated, how religion was used both as a club to keep slaves in line and as a means of self-expression for the slaves, the operation of the Underground Railroad, and much more. Riveting and highly recommended, yet also shocking in its literal, realistic portrayal of man's historical inhumanity in·hu·man·i·ty
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1. Lack of pity or compassion.
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