![]() Among them was Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the real-life historical figure and beating heart of David Wright Faladé's mesmerizing debut adult novel, Black Cloud Rising.Ī complicated but fascinating figure, Etheridge is born a "Banker" (i.e., a native of Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks), the progeny of an enslaved mother, who is called Ma'am in the novel, and their enslaver, called John B. ![]() In December, the newly formed African Brigade, under the command of fiery abolitionist, one-armed General Edward Augustus Wild, set out for a three-week raid to root out Confederate Partisan Rangers and free the remaining enslaved. Along with the soldiers of Abraham came emancipation for the enslaved and - for the men - the opportunity to sign up for the Union cause. ![]() Along the Virginia Tidewater region, Union forces were in control and pushing into eastern North Carolina, with a tentative toehold in the Outer Banks. ![]() In this novel based on a little-known Civil War episode, a formerly enslaved man takes to the battlefield as a Union soldier and wrestles with his identity.īy late fall of 1863, the American Civil War was in its pivotal third year. ![]()
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