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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Forge
Published: Feb 2003
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $14.99
Pages: 192
From the bestselling author of The Lost Regiment series comes a factually based narrative of the black military experience in the Civil War.
'We Look Like Men of War'
''I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man....''
Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which forces Sam and his cousin to flee the plantation. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight f