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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.
(To see photo click on link below)
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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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TAPS - first played by a US CIVIL WAR Bugler in 1862
Book: FREEDOM CALLING by Dana Vacca
Civil War Trivia
"TAPS" was first played in July of 1862 by Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, an American Civil War general and commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Army of the Potomac. "Taps" was used by both Union and Confederate forces, and was officially recognized by the United States Army in 1874.
It was used at military funerals beginning in July of 1862 at Harrison's Landing when a corporal, of Captain John Francis Tidball's Battery A, 2nd US Artillery, died. He was, Tidball recalled later, "a most excellent man".
"Taps" concludes many military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery and elsewhere in the United States, and is still sounded each year during each of the military wreath ceremonies conducted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
Civil War Trivia
"TAPS" was first played in July of 1862 by Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield, an American Civil War general and commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Army of the Potomac. "Taps" was used by both Union and Confederate forces, and was officially recognized by the United States Army in 1874.
It was used at military funerals beginning in July of 1862 at Harrison's Landing when a corporal, of Captain John Francis Tidball's Battery A, 2nd US Artillery, died. He was, Tidball recalled later, "a most excellent man".
"Taps" concludes many military funerals at Arlington National Cemetery and elsewhere in the United States, and is still sounded each year during each of the military wreath ceremonies conducted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
SEE PHOTO (Daniel Butterfield & Listen to TAPS): https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
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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