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A brutal saga of the Civil War-and a regiment of fugitive slaves that thirsted for revenge.Scarred, branded, unchained, they were the First Southern Volunteers, a Union regiment of fugitive slaves suddenly armed and free to avenge a lifetime of pain and degradation: some with a savagery that knew no bounds and offered no mercy.Labe's clowning had concealed the dark passion within him, even from himself. But the war changed all that-he had the gun...
2) Slave
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A raw and unbridled novel of slavery in the Deep South.Shattered by the forces of unrest and upheaval that preceded the Civil War, the Ackerly Plantation is caught up in a frenzy of violence, cruelty, and hatred.Here is the brutal reality of slavery--of men and women sold at auction--of young girls forced to gratify their master's lust--of slaves tortured until their only remaining instinct is to strike back . . . to kill.And the throbbing passions...
3) Slave Ship
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A major novel of the American slave trade that annihilates the myths of black African docility and white humanity on an unforgettable nightmare voyage that takes the reader into the hearts and minds and private hells of the slavers as well as the enslaved. At a time when nearly every civilized nation, including the United States, had outlawed the trade, the American flag still flew from the masts of hundreds of slaving ships off the west coast of...
4) Running Dogs
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A hard, unflinching novel of men – black and white – locked in a struggle against themselves, each other, and the unforgiving landscape of the American West. There is only so much a man can take, and the men of the Second Colored Cavalry had taken enough. So in spit-shine dress uniforms, on the regiment's finest horses, a group of them rode into the town of Roxbury Run, tied their mounts to the hitching rail, and walked into the Dead Ringer Saloon....
5) Hellbottom
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A savagely real novel of degradation, violence and slaves without chains.They were the hunted, the outcasts, the men who had fired guns too quickly and the woman who had been raped too often. There was no place for them in the white world. They were free black men and women driven to a womb of hell by incredible brutality-and their only salvation lay in the merciless justice of the swamp itself.Survival of the fittest:No white man had ever wanted...
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