Category: History Publisher: PublishAmerica
ISBN-10: 1592864694
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 199
Copyright: Feb 1, 2003
Before the Civil War there were a half a million people of African decent living in America as freemen. Our Silent Song is their untold story. It is a love story and a story of great courage and determination. It is the story of heroes and villians. It is a story that tells about those who fought for freedom in the American Revolution, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War and in the struggle to intregrate schools. It is a story that cries out to be told.
Our Silent Song is a novel but true to the facts of history, telling the stories of great men and women of color in America from 1750 to 1910. It is a story whose time has come to tell.
Our Silent Song was carefully researched to present an historically accurate look at the lives of freeborn African-American people in the United States. It pulls no punches in tell their stories. There is anger and frustration. There is hope, courage and struggle. There are victories and there are defeats.
Our Silent Song is a sometimes tender and a sometimes forceful retelling of American history through different eyes - those of free Africans in America.
Excerpt
It was 1812 and during the lifetime of that newborn, William Webb, the United States of America would take a long look at itself in the mirror that betrays all flaws. It would begin to correct the distorted image it beheld; but that process would be a costly and agonizing one indeed.
The heroic story of how a small group of people, few of them TB experts, found the cure for the greatest killer in human history. But the battle needed to be extended to all sufferers. Why have we failed to take the miracle to the developing world?
