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We sometimes look at the Civil War as a very low point of our country's history, an ugly scar that the world gawks at. But what if the two sides had negotiated, had come to an agreement to keep all those lives from being lost? What if a constitutional amendment was written in 1860 whereby States Rights allowed each state to decide for itself if slavery should be legal and the war and blood ...more
We sometimes look at the Civil War as a very low point of our country's history, an ugly scar that the world gawks at. But what if the two sides had negotiated, had come to an agreement to keep all those lives from being lost? What if a constitutional amendment was written in 1860 whereby States Rights allowed each state to decide for itself if slavery should be legal and the war and blood ...more
4.5 stars
Ben Winters presents the harrowing narrative of a black man in an alternate history where the civil war was never fought and slavery remains legal in the "hard four" southern states. Through a series of events years before the the novel takes place, the protagonist is recruited as a "slave snatcher" with the U. S. Marshall Service. His job is to locate escaped slaves so that they can be recaptured and returned to their "owners". The file on his latest assignment is not complete and as t ...more
Ben Winters presents the harrowing narrative of a black man in an alternate history where the civil war was never fought and slavery remains legal in the "hard four" southern states. Through a series of events years before the the novel takes place, the protagonist is recruited as a "slave snatcher" with the U. S. Marshall Service. His job is to locate escaped slaves so that they can be recaptured and returned to their "owners". The file on his latest assignment is not complete and as t ...more
Jul 05, 2018
Christelle
marked it as wishlist
Nov 17, 2022
Tammy S
marked it as to-read
