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|  | | Our Silent Song: The True Story of an American Family
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.
| |  | | Silas Cully's Tavern Tales
Silas Cully's Tavern Tales is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant look at Nineteenth Century America through the eyes of a barkeep. Who else but the local barkeep could tell it all? Here is Silas - expounding against California statehood, chiding ladies for entering his barroom, and telling the jokes and humorous stories that are his stock in trade. Authentic food and drink recipes from 1850 taverns are also provided.
Silas Cully's Tavern Tales: Stories, Jokes, and Recipes From A Nineteenth Century Barkeeper is a lighthearted, yet accurate look at the middle of the 19th Century. It abounds with humorous stories and poignant tales of life on the American Frontier.
Bert G. Osterberg, the author, is employed at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan and brings his unique historic perspective to the reader.
The book contains historic food and drink recipes as well as a chronology of 1850 with "Silas'" comments and observations. A must for any history buff! |
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