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The Sweet Revenge of Marcus Aurelius: Based on the True Story of a Slave Who Sold his Master - Couverture souple

Mitchell, Hanson

 
9781647506278: The Sweet Revenge of Marcus Aurelius: Based on the True Story of a Slave Who Sold his Master
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ISBN 10 : 1647506271 ISBN 13 : 9781647506278
Editeur : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

The Sweet Revenge of Marcus Aurelius is based on the true story of a talented and ingenious slave who sold his master. When he was still a young house boy, Marcus Aurelius was taught to read and write by the plantation owner's rebellious twelve-year-old daughter, who also instilled in him a passionate desire for freedom. She even encouraged him to escape, which he did - three different times - thus setting in motion his ultimate and sweetest revenge. His story, even without fictionalizing, is a wide-ranging, swash-buckling tale of a fittingly just revenge set against many venues: the cruelties and dehumanizing effects of plantation life, a year in a unique community of escaped slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp, Paris high society in the Second Republic, duels, an enduring love affair, bad dogs and violent slave catchers, crime-ridden New Orleans street life, and even a stint as a passenger on a pirate ship.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hanson Mitchell is the author of a series of books collected together as The Scratch Flat Chronicles that focus on a single square mile of agricultural land in eastern Massachusetts.


He is also the author of Looking for Mr. Gilbert, the story of his discovery of the lost glass plate negatives of the first African-American landscape photographer. It was while he was researching that book that he uncovered the story of Marcus Aurelius.


He also happens to be the descendant of one of the players in this book.

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Éditeur
Austin Macauley Publishers
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1647506271
ISBN 13 
9781647506278
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
325
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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