Look Away Quotes

“There would be no life for darkies in the new Dixie, or the new United States, either, come to that.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“Napoleon, true to his word, began the work of preparing Haiti for the transfer of former American slaves, about a third the number of them as there had been prior to the uprisings and reprisals.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“It must live on. The revolution must not end here.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“the police traced the importation of the counterfeit currency to the Freud family.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“when his daddy had been a kid, there had been another slave revolt, over to Charleston. Some church had wanted to overthrow the masters and set the slaves free. The negroes there had planned to head off to Haiti, a black man’s island, it was said.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“started running up the other side of the works at them, shooting and singing as they came.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“History is not made or changed by the bosses, but by the masses,”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“recommended that Lincoln, the Cabinet, and the Congress relocate to New York City.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“bells tolled the saddest 4th of July in fourscore and seven years.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“I reckon it’s the 4th of July, Jory,” a low voice came from a few feet away, “but that ain’t gonna be our Independence Day no more, is it?”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“Stuart’s attack on East Petersburg, just north of Lancaster, distracted Meade’s staff from Ewell and Hill crossing the Susquehanna at Shenks Ferry and Holtwood far to his south, with both of their Confederate Corps.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“General Lee now had the Union army flanked on two sides,”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“Was a rebellion against a rebellion a war for the way things had been, when they were fighting to change the way things were?”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“the war for southern independence could become a world war.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“The 30,000 French troops in Mexico could make sure that the Western ambitions of Texicans were met.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“Confederate citizens, slaveholding or not, would be more than happy to be rid of their obsolete farm machinery.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“He joined in, giving the best rebel yell his straining lungs could carry.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“Former slaves in revolt were just armed and sent back to kill more Confederates.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“Confederate Cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s successful raids around Grant’s headquarters at Holly Springs, Mississippi disrupting communications between Grant and his wide-spread Units, destroying telegraph lines, and sowing confusion, slowed the spread of the General Orders down the chain of command.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War

“nobody wanted to die for any darkies, not even their own.”
― Billy Roper, Look Away: An Alternate History of the Civil War