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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
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!!!
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!!!
LINK TO BOOK PAGE: https://www.amazon.com/…/…/069211405X...…
THANK YOU!!!
FREEDOM CALLING Book Signing in Wakefield, Rhode Island
I will be doing a book signing on August 19th, 2018 in Wakefield, Rhode Island at Java Madness Waterfront Cafe. If you're in the area, stop by and say "HI"! I will be there from 1pm to 4pm. The waterfront view from the deck is lovely and the coffee and food is yummy!
Java Madness
134 Salt Pond Road
Wakefield, RI 02879
Java Madness
134 Salt Pond Road
Wakefield, RI 02879
FREEDOM CALLING Book: The Great Dismal Swamp People
FREEDOM CALLING - Book Highlights
THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP
During the American Civil War, many runaways took refuge in the Great Dismal Swamp that spans the border of Virginia and North Carolina. But the Dismal had been a used as a safe haven even long before 1861. Many Native Americans, African-Americans, and even Portuguese and English seamen, for various reasons, inhabited the swamp from as early as the 1600s. Some were outlaws, some fled bondage, some were born there.
The Dismal was millions of acres of thick vegetation and deep, soggy bogs. Much of it was wetland and mire, but the interior had large hummocks with higher ground that was solid and dry.
The swamp was also home to many species of poisonous rattlesnakes and cottonmouths, cougar, alligators and other dangerous animals. Most folks kept to the edges of the swamp, if they entered it at all, and even the brave ones who dared push further in ended up losing their way, sometimes for days, - and afterward would never consider venturing into it a second time!
SEE PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP
During the American Civil War, many runaways took refuge in the Great Dismal Swamp that spans the border of Virginia and North Carolina. But the Dismal had been a used as a safe haven even long before 1861. Many Native Americans, African-Americans, and even Portuguese and English seamen, for various reasons, inhabited the swamp from as early as the 1600s. Some were outlaws, some fled bondage, some were born there.
The Dismal was millions of acres of thick vegetation and deep, soggy bogs. Much of it was wetland and mire, but the interior had large hummocks with higher ground that was solid and dry.
The swamp was also home to many species of poisonous rattlesnakes and cottonmouths, cougar, alligators and other dangerous animals. Most folks kept to the edges of the swamp, if they entered it at all, and even the brave ones who dared push further in ended up losing their way, sometimes for days, - and afterward would never consider venturing into it a second time!
SEE PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
FREEDOM CALLING Book: The Great Dismal Swamp
FREEDOM CALLING - Book Highlights
By the 1800's the inhabitants of the Great Dismal Swamp were known by many names,... Melungeons, Outliers, Maroons, Swampers... Some lived their whole lives without ever leaving the swamp.
The term Melungeon means a person of mixed race,... a combination of African-American, Native American and European descent, but freed and fugitive African-Americans, Native Americans from various tribes and white Caucasians also lived in the Dismal.
Their shelters were simple and small and rather crude but serviceable, (like the one in the photo below), and often cobbled together from logs, scavenaged board planks and bark. Usually living in small groups, their little communities, tucked in the secluded thickets of dry hummocks, were scattered within the interior of the swamp. The Outliers were almost completely self-sufficient, and lived off the land by hunting, gathering and planting. To make tools they reworked whatever iron and metal they found, traded for, or brought with them.
The swamp was a rich hunting ground with a large fresh-water lake (Lake Drummond; see photo) at the center. The water in Lake Drummond, though amber colored, is especially pure because of the tannic acids of the juniper, cypree and gum trees forests in the swamp. Kegs of the Dismal's swampwater was sold as drinking water for sailing ships since the water stayed fresh for a very long time! It was also thought to have magical qualities - that if regularly drunk would prevent illness and ensure long life!
SEE COOL PHOTOS of Dismal Swamp ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
By the 1800's the inhabitants of the Great Dismal Swamp were known by many names,... Melungeons, Outliers, Maroons, Swampers... Some lived their whole lives without ever leaving the swamp.
The term Melungeon means a person of mixed race,... a combination of African-American, Native American and European descent, but freed and fugitive African-Americans, Native Americans from various tribes and white Caucasians also lived in the Dismal.
Their shelters were simple and small and rather crude but serviceable, (like the one in the photo below), and often cobbled together from logs, scavenaged board planks and bark. Usually living in small groups, their little communities, tucked in the secluded thickets of dry hummocks, were scattered within the interior of the swamp. The Outliers were almost completely self-sufficient, and lived off the land by hunting, gathering and planting. To make tools they reworked whatever iron and metal they found, traded for, or brought with them.
The swamp was a rich hunting ground with a large fresh-water lake (Lake Drummond; see photo) at the center. The water in Lake Drummond, though amber colored, is especially pure because of the tannic acids of the juniper, cypree and gum trees forests in the swamp. Kegs of the Dismal's swampwater was sold as drinking water for sailing ships since the water stayed fresh for a very long time! It was also thought to have magical qualities - that if regularly drunk would prevent illness and ensure long life!
SEE COOL PHOTOS of Dismal Swamp ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes By Sea
Freedom Calling - Captain's Cabin Aboard Ship - The Lady Grey
ABOARD THE SHIP - CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS
Book Excerpts
"The captain went into his cabin to the nook lined with rolls of nautical charts. Bent over the large map spread out on the map table, he traced our plotted route and pointed to our present location...."
Check out this typical New England ship interior
http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho...
It is a typical interior of a New England barque. The design and furnishings of Freedom Calling's whale ship, the LADY GREY, would have been very much like this.
The captain's cabin was located in the aft-most section of the ship. A bank of large, paned windows lined the stern-side gallery that, by day, bathed the cabin in rays of bright, sunny light and silvery moonlight by night.
How amazing it would be,... to be seated at the chart table with the beautiful panorama of azure blue sky and cobalt sea receding behind you!
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Book Link: http://amzn.to/2MfiMiW
Book Excerpts
"The captain went into his cabin to the nook lined with rolls of nautical charts. Bent over the large map spread out on the map table, he traced our plotted route and pointed to our present location...."
Check out this typical New England ship interior
http://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho...
It is a typical interior of a New England barque. The design and furnishings of Freedom Calling's whale ship, the LADY GREY, would have been very much like this.
The captain's cabin was located in the aft-most section of the ship. A bank of large, paned windows lined the stern-side gallery that, by day, bathed the cabin in rays of bright, sunny light and silvery moonlight by night.
How amazing it would be,... to be seated at the chart table with the beautiful panorama of azure blue sky and cobalt sea receding behind you!
PICS: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Book Link: http://amzn.to/2MfiMiW
Civil War Era Washington, DC, the most vulnerable city in the Union
With Washington, DC, the White House and President Lincoln just across the Potomac from the Confederate Army, the Federals had to be ever vigilant and the approach to the capitol was well-defended.
Here, in this original photograph, a gun crew of Union soldiers from the 4th New York Heavy Artillery load a 24-pounder M.1845 Seacoast Gun at Fort Corcoran in Alexandria, Va. The cannoneer on the left holds a hollow explosive-shell. On the ground to the right are a grapeshot and canister-shell. (Library of Congress)
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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea
Here, in this original photograph, a gun crew of Union soldiers from the 4th New York Heavy Artillery load a 24-pounder M.1845 Seacoast Gun at Fort Corcoran in Alexandria, Va. The cannoneer on the left holds a hollow explosive-shell. On the ground to the right are a grapeshot and canister-shell. (Library of Congress)
See Photo: https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarHist...
Read more: https://www.essentialcivilwarcurricul...
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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