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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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When God Gives Us Spring: a novella

When God Gives Us Spring: a novella

Austin, Audrey

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1499106769
ISBN13: 9781499106763
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Apr 10 2014
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Michael Custis Washington is a young black slave living on a cotton plantation in the Province of Virginia. He was born in 1802. Left an orphan at the age of five he is taken into the big house by his master, Alfred Gordon, to be trained as a house servant. While in this house he suffers severe emotional and sexual abuse. When he finally runs away with his wife Lucinda he is helped by the Quakers. Through the Underground Railway they reach the Elgin Settlement in Ontario, Canada. Freedom is his at last. But when the American Civil War breaks out in 1861 Michael chooses to join the Union Army. He works his way back to Virginia. Is he seeking justice or vengeance?

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