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Freedom Calling Runaway Slave
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Freedom Calling Runaway Slave Celia
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This is Celia, (click on the link above) the main character of FREEDOM CALLING. Her mother was a African-American slave. Her father was a white man.
Celia's mother, Daisy, once knew what it was like to be free, but Celia was born into slavery. From when she was a little girl, her mother told her the Lord would let her know when the time was right. He would send his angels to guide them to freedom. That time had finally come.
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
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This is Celia, (click on the link above) the main character of FREEDOM CALLING. Her mother was a African-American slave. Her father was a white man.
Celia's mother, Daisy, once knew what it was like to be free, but Celia was born into slavery. From when she was a little girl, her mother told her the Lord would let her know when the time was right. He would send his angels to guide them to freedom. That time had finally come.
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
Freedom Calling THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP
FREEDOM CALLING - Book Highlights
The strange and mysterious Great Dismal Swamp, located in southeastern Virginia / northeastern North Carolina, is a fascinating place and is seen up close and personal as the story of Daisy and Celia unfolds! The swamp is steeped in Native American legend and early American folklore. When I began researching this wild and unusual area, I found it had been home to various peoples for over 13,000 years. Coastal Native Americans lived there until the seventeenth century. In the eighteen and nineteenth centuries it became a refuge for escaped slaves, runaways, outlaws, and fugitives who wanted to find freedom outside mainstream society. This expanse of wilderness is an inhospitable, harsh environment that has never completely bent to the hand of man. Though smaller in size, it still remains today, an ancient and primordial no man's land.
EXCERPT: "Cypress roots poked up through the mud. Some resembled sharpened stakes, pointed and menacing. Others like gravestones in a long-forgotten cemetery, leaned eerily: - lifeless, solemn and forlorn. Still more, like herds of disfigured creatures or the spawn of sinister abominations, rose up from the unholy black water and stood staring - motionless and tall."
(see pics of the Dismal Swamp's cypress; click link below)
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The strange and mysterious Great Dismal Swamp, located in southeastern Virginia / northeastern North Carolina, is a fascinating place and is seen up close and personal as the story of Daisy and Celia unfolds! The swamp is steeped in Native American legend and early American folklore. When I began researching this wild and unusual area, I found it had been home to various peoples for over 13,000 years. Coastal Native Americans lived there until the seventeenth century. In the eighteen and nineteenth centuries it became a refuge for escaped slaves, runaways, outlaws, and fugitives who wanted to find freedom outside mainstream society. This expanse of wilderness is an inhospitable, harsh environment that has never completely bent to the hand of man. Though smaller in size, it still remains today, an ancient and primordial no man's land.
EXCERPT: "Cypress roots poked up through the mud. Some resembled sharpened stakes, pointed and menacing. Others like gravestones in a long-forgotten cemetery, leaned eerily: - lifeless, solemn and forlorn. Still more, like herds of disfigured creatures or the spawn of sinister abominations, rose up from the unholy black water and stood staring - motionless and tall."
(see pics of the Dismal Swamp's cypress; click link below)
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Freedom Calling Runaway Slave Escapes By Sea
If you've already read FREEDOM CALLING I would love you to write a review!
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Freedom Calling - Introducing Another Main Character, Enapay
Freedom Calling - Another Main Character
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This is Enapay, a Native American Sioux whose name means "Appears Bravely". To Celia, Enapay is a friend sent from heaven.
EXCERPT from the book: Celia writes, "I had a growing admiration for Enapay, a man whose ancestors survived in this land for eons, and passed down their skills from one generation to the next. He was resourceful, resilient and wise without guile, and he astounded me with his knowledge of the earth's abundant bounty."
(Click link to view Enapay).
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
Book Link: https://amzn.to/2yCeYab
This is Enapay, a Native American Sioux whose name means "Appears Bravely". To Celia, Enapay is a friend sent from heaven.
EXCERPT from the book: Celia writes, "I had a growing admiration for Enapay, a man whose ancestors survived in this land for eons, and passed down their skills from one generation to the next. He was resourceful, resilient and wise without guile, and he astounded me with his knowledge of the earth's abundant bounty."
(Click link to view Enapay).
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
Civil War Blockade Running Packet Steamer
FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea by Dana Vacca
Civil War Blockade Runner - Side-Wheel Steamer flying Confederate flag - concealing its true mission and identity! It was owned by a Northern manufacturer who used it to secretly get Southern cotton and tobacco out through the blockade.
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Civil War Blockade Runner - Side-Wheel Steamer flying Confederate flag - concealing its true mission and identity! It was owned by a Northern manufacturer who used it to secretly get Southern cotton and tobacco out through the blockade.
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Thank You! to all who have purchased my new book: Freedom Calling!
A BIG THANK YOU
to all who have purchased my new book:
FREEDOM CALLING: A CIVIL WAR SLAVE ESCAPES BY SEA
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THANK YOU!!!
to all who have purchased my new book:
FREEDOM CALLING: A CIVIL WAR SLAVE ESCAPES BY SEA
PLEASE help me reach the goal of 100 reviews on Amazon Books
PLEASE HELP me reach my goal of 100 book reviews and POST A REVIEW on our Amazon Book pageI
It will boost FREEDOM CALLING in the search engine!!!
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THANK YOU!!!
Cotton & Tobacco and the Union Blockade
BOOK: Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea by Dana Vacca
BOOK HIGHLIGHTS
The Pettigrew Plantation, like Shamrock Valley, had large, airy barns to store tobacco and cotton bales that were ready for shipment north. The hogshead barrels of tobacco and the bales of cotton would be loaded onto buckboard wagons, driven to the harbor and unloaded onto waiting sailing ships.
During the Civil War the Union blockade halted all Confederate trade at all ports in the South, and the loss of income was bankrupting the landed gentry. Plantation owners plotted risky, clandestine, late-night schemes to secretively transport their season's harvest on fast, discreet packet steamers that could sometimes manage to slip out of the harbor unnoticed. Because of the risk of confiscation and arrest, though, the price offered for their produce was low, and the cost of shipping, high. Even when all went well, there was little, if any, profit to be made.
Book Excerpt -
"Friday night, just before sunset, we slipped quietly away from the plantation and hurried through the forest of tall oaks in the direction of the Pettigrew plantation. We neared the edge of the small pasture that led to the farmyard. Silhouetted against the purple sky were Mr. Pettigrew's large storage barns. A thin horse stood patiently in front of the cavernous doorway of the first storehouse while a few men loaded burlap-shrouded bales of cotton onto the wagon that was hitched behind the horse. Around the far side, at the rear of the building, two more horse-and-wagon teams stood tied and unattended. These wagons were already loaded, one piled high with the big blocks of tightly bound cotton and the other with oaken barrels. Even from a distance we caught the heavy sweet scent of the cured tobacco coming from the kegs."
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
:
BOOK HIGHLIGHTS
The Pettigrew Plantation, like Shamrock Valley, had large, airy barns to store tobacco and cotton bales that were ready for shipment north. The hogshead barrels of tobacco and the bales of cotton would be loaded onto buckboard wagons, driven to the harbor and unloaded onto waiting sailing ships.
During the Civil War the Union blockade halted all Confederate trade at all ports in the South, and the loss of income was bankrupting the landed gentry. Plantation owners plotted risky, clandestine, late-night schemes to secretively transport their season's harvest on fast, discreet packet steamers that could sometimes manage to slip out of the harbor unnoticed. Because of the risk of confiscation and arrest, though, the price offered for their produce was low, and the cost of shipping, high. Even when all went well, there was little, if any, profit to be made.
Book Excerpt -
"Friday night, just before sunset, we slipped quietly away from the plantation and hurried through the forest of tall oaks in the direction of the Pettigrew plantation. We neared the edge of the small pasture that led to the farmyard. Silhouetted against the purple sky were Mr. Pettigrew's large storage barns. A thin horse stood patiently in front of the cavernous doorway of the first storehouse while a few men loaded burlap-shrouded bales of cotton onto the wagon that was hitched behind the horse. Around the far side, at the rear of the building, two more horse-and-wagon teams stood tied and unattended. These wagons were already loaded, one piled high with the big blocks of tightly bound cotton and the other with oaken barrels. Even from a distance we caught the heavy sweet scent of the cured tobacco coming from the kegs."
LINK TO PHOTO ON FACEBOOK
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
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Not Just Another Civil War Novel
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
Not "just another Civil War novel." You will question your own definition of freedom, morality and humanity as you share the joys, sorrows and experiences of the main characters who have all struggled to re-define what it means to be free.
Freedom Calling - Sailing Barque / Whaling Ship, The Lady Grey
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea by Dana Vacca
Book Highlights / Excerpts
The Lady Grey is a 19th century whale ship - a barque, in style. Her home port was New Bedford, Massachusetts but her whaling voyages, lasting one to two years, took her all over the globe.
Book Excerpt ...the captain walked the starboard stretch of the sternmost upper deck - his private retreat. Most of his time, though, was spent on the quarterdeck, just behind the main mast of the ship. That was his domain, his throne, where he reigned supreme. There, he knew the real meaning of freedom that most landsmen can only imagine.
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FREEDOM CALLING: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea by Dana Vacca
Book Highlights / Excerpts
The Lady Grey is a 19th century whale ship - a barque, in style. Her home port was New Bedford, Massachusetts but her whaling voyages, lasting one to two years, took her all over the globe.
Book Excerpt ...the captain walked the starboard stretch of the sternmost upper deck - his private retreat. Most of his time, though, was spent on the quarterdeck, just behind the main mast of the ship. That was his domain, his throne, where he reigned supreme. There, he knew the real meaning of freedom that most landsmen can only imagine.
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Freedom Calling A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
FREEDOM CALLING is a page-turner packed with action, emotion, romance and adventure - vibrantly painted with powerful characters, vivid imagery and factual details of the Civil War era.
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