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Freedom's Banner Kindle Edition

by Teresa Crane (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
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This Civil War family saga “bear[s] comparison to the work of Jane Aiken Hodge” and “sweeps readers along with a nice blend of drama and social history” (Publishers Weekly).
 
Nineteenth-century Britain: the abolitionists have won. Slavery is outlawed. A valiant victory—but it’s all too easy to forget that in the rest of the world the inhuman practice is still a part of everyday life. A thought that the usually clear-thinking Mattie Henderson chooses to suppress when she finds herself unexpectedly married and on her way to South Carolina with her new husband.

Mattie realizes too late that she is heading towards a country where a bitter civil war is about to break out—brother against brother, father against son. And the innocent, as always, will suffer with the guilty.

A generation later and the battle is still not won: the grim slave trade still flourishes. This time it is Mattie’s estranged and headstrong son Harry who, against the backdrop of the glorious Nile finds himself caught up in the murderous machinations of the slavers.

From the American Civil War to the slave trade in Egypt, Freedom’s Banner is the perfect generational saga of love, family, and redemption.
 
“Crane is gifted at tying political and historical strands together into an unusually gripping family saga with a sense of purpose” —Booklist

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Slavery is the theme of this fine effort by the author of Strange Are the Ways?slavery actual, slavery to convention and slavery to prejudice. Free-spirited Mattie Henderson is becoming resigned to spinsterhood when she is courted, wed and whisked from Bath to the antebellum South by dashing Johnny Sherwood. Initially happy, though horrified by the institution of slavery that sustains the Sherwood family's plantation, Mattie soon is shattered by the revelation of Johnny's guilty secret, his enduring love for his childhood sweetheart. Another secret also comes to light: the paternity of the slave Joshua, who is Johnny's half-brother. Mattie eventually becomes the mainstay of the family as its graceful world is shattered by the Civil War and the deaths that claim the male Sherwoods. Joshua becomes her lover, but he too dies in battle. Mattie returns to England with her own secret?Harry, Joshua's child. When Harry is 18 she tells him of his "tainted" heritage. He goes to Egypt with the British army, where he meets a woman as unconventional as his own mother and must come to terms with his identity. Crane's sound characterization and apt use of historical detail bear comparison to the work of Jane Aiken Hodge. Her tale sweeps readers along with a nice blend of drama and social history.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

The settings for Crane's historical novel change from England to America to Egypt, interweaving the issue of abolitionism within the tragic events that befall a family. Mattie Henderson, believed by most to be destined for spinsterhood, is the marvel of Bath when she meets and marries a handsome gentleman from the American South. Newly married and traveling with him to Georgia, she broods about reconciling her love for her husband with the slavery that supports his family plantation. The Civil War destroys her newfound family through battlefield deaths, political disagreements, and the shooting of her lover (her husband's half-brother). Years later, her son, enlightened about his true parentage, first joins the French foreign legion and then the British armed forces and eventually confronts the beginning loop of the slave trade in the desert. Crane is gifted at tying political and historical strands together into an unusually gripping family saga with a sense of purpose. Denise Perry Donavin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BLGC46DT
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Canelo (February 18, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 18, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1362 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 481 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings

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Kindle Customer.....virginia
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely
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I can only say that it was a beautiful and moving story. I loved it and didn't want to put it down.
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Jes H
5.0 out of 5 stars Romance and adventure
Reviewed in Australia on January 29, 2020
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What a ripping yarn! Unputdownable. Great story telling, from early Victorian England to the American Civil War and then the exotic Middle East.
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Jil Meikle
1.0 out of 5 stars Always a great read
Reviewed in Australia on June 2, 2019
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Love Teresa Crane’s writing, have read almost every one and thoroughly enjoy the plot with it’s twists and turns, the characters, and superb deliverance of gripping read. ❤️
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