The Resistors

Wilson, Dwight L.

ISBN 10: 1947041363 / ISBN 13: 9781947041363

Verlag: Running Wild Press, 2019

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G1947041363I4N00

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The Resistors is a parallel sequel to 2018's The Kidnapped. It focuses on blacks, whites, and Native Americans resisting pre-Civil War oppression while attempting to establish dignified identities. It is also in the voice of Sarah, one of the author's direct ancestors. She was the daughter of Esi and Kofi two fictionalized Fante kidnapped from West Africa in 1795. With the help of Quakers, together with two brothers, Robin and Dan, Sarah escaped from being enslaved in Culpeper, Virginia and settled in Warren County, Ohio where she met and married the Scots-Irish Quaker, Charles Ferguson. It is imagined that Sarah was primarily educated by her father who himself was taught reading and writing by Nathan Prescott, his slave master, and secondarily through two years of education at Goose Creek Friends School, a Quaker school in Northern Virginia, renown for being integrated prior to Nat Turner's revolt which led to state laws forbidding the education of people of color.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Dwight L. Wilson is father to four sons and grandfather to two grandsons and two granddaughters. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife Diane, an attorney. A former General Secretary of Friends General Conference and 41-year educator, he is the author of the 6-part historical fiction "Esi Was My Mother," two collections of short stories, "The Kidnapped" and "The Resistors" both published by Running Wild Press of Los Angeles and two books of modern psalms. "Modern Psalms in Search of Peace and Justice" (FUM Press) and "Modern Psalms of Solace and Resistance."

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Resistors
Verlag: Running Wild Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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