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    612-822-4611

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Master Robert

Master Robert

Stevens, Robert L.

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 1524689696
ISBN13: 9781524689698
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Apr 24 2017
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Men are creatures of the time in which they live and take their color from the conditions that surround them, as the chameleon does from the grass or leaves in which it hides.--from Master Robert
Life is unpredictable. Like a hurricane that descends without warning, it wreaks havoc, destroys fields and property, and brings peril to those in its wake. An event over which we have no control can dramatically affect our lives. Amos and Amelia, surrogate children of Robert Stafford, a wealthy planter from Cumberland Island, Georgia, grow from youth into adulthood during the Civil War. Master Robert is eccentric. He has Northern sympathies yet lives in the South, marries his mulatto slave, sires six children, and creates a peculiar society. His slaves have more freedom than those on any plantation in the South. The ominous and precipitous events of the war threaten his plantation and his life. Amos and Amelia, pulled like a riptide into this maelstrom, witness the evacuation of Fernandina, the largest naval invasion in US history, the burning of Master Robert's cotton shed, carry a message to a blockade runner, celebrate Jonkonnu, a slave holiday, and grieve at their mother's funeral. Master Robert captures the life and spirit of plantation society during the Civil War.
It is refreshing to see several current movies and books such as Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Lee Daniel's The Butler, and Master Robert all imparting the perspective of the slave or former slave. In the case of Master Robert we get the opportunity to see life on a plantation through the eyes and ears of slave twins, Amos and Amelia.
--Mary Smith, Past President, Texas Social Studies Supervisor's Assocaition, member of the Texas Council for the Social Studies abd currently an educational concusltant.

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