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Swift Currents - Couverture rigide

Grim, David Bruce

 
9781491733950: Swift Currents
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1491733950 ISBN 13 : 9781491733950
Editeur : iUniverse, 2014

Synopsis

Twenty-three year old Callie has lived in bondage at Oakheart Plantation since her birth. She has become a valuable asset to her cruel master, Daniel Bowen, but Callie, her two brothers, and her young daughter struggle to cope with the outrages of enslavement. Change occurs suddenly on November 7, 1861, when the Union Navy attacks Port Royal Sound in South Carolina. Slavery ends across the surrounding sea islands after the planters flee. Ten thousand newly freed people, like Callie and her family, begin life under the authority of the US government. A historical novel based on actual events from 1861 to 1863, Swift Currents describes the slaves' transition from bondage to freedom through the lens of Callie and her two brothers. As they and others pursue education, work for wages, fight for freedom, and become landowners, their lives intersect with civilian and military authorities. Callie's story seeks to help the nation come to terms with its racial history and serves to provide a greater understanding of shared stories, thus lessening the inherited prejudice of generations.

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Biographie de l'auteur

David Bruce Grim Before Retirement 1992-2004 ? Deputy Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, US Agency for International Development. Managed the Agency?s EEO complaint process, and conducted investigations, mediations and training in Washington and overseas, including work in South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Cote D?Ivoire, Peru, Jamaica, and the Phillipines. 1987-1992 ? Equal Opportunity Specialist, Office for Civil Rights, US Environmental Protection Agency. Conducted EEO complaint investigations, wrote case decisions, developed environmental justice policy, and created an Agency partnership with a city junior high school. 1975-1986 ? Equal Opportunity Specialist, Office of Congressional and Public Affairs, US Commission on Civil Rights. Researched and wrote chapters in Commission publications and Congressional testimony on school desegregation and equal opportunity in higher education. 1972-75 ? US Department of Agriculture. Conducted investigations under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prevent discrimination in Federally-assisted programs. Duke University graduate (BA, 1972), father of two, grandfather of three. After Retirement Since I left my Federal career in civil rights enforcement, research, reporting, and Congressional liaison, I have volunteered on a variety of social and environmental justice projects through my Unitarian fellowship. I have been affiliated with Penn Center in various capacities in recent years and, currently, I serve on the Board of Trustees there. My life?s work and my personal life compelled me to write Swift Currents, to help lift the level of tolerance and good will between the races. I hope that this story will help more young people and their parents come to a greater understanding of our shared racial history and abandon the inherited prejudice of generations.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Twenty-three year old Callie has lived in bondage at Oakheart Plantation since her birth. She has become a valuable asset to her cruel master, Daniel Bowen, but Callie, her two brothers, and her young daughter struggle to cope with the outrages of enslavement. Change occurs suddenly on November 7, 1861, when the Union Navy attacks Port Royal Sound in South Carolina. Slavery ends across the surrounding sea islands after the planters flee. Ten thousand newly freed people, like Callie and her family, begin life under the authority of the US government. A historical novel based on actual events from 1861 to 1863, Swift Currents describes the slaves? transition from bondage to freedom through the lens of Callie and her two brothers. As they and others pursue education, work for wages, fight for freedom, and become landowners, their lives intersect with civilian and military authorities. Callie?s story seeks to help the nation come to terms with its racial history and serves to provide a greater understanding of shared stories, thus lessening the inherited prejudice of generations.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1491733950
ISBN 13 
9781491733950
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
316
Coordonnées du fabricant
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