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UNCIVIL WAR
Between the sheets of Black and White
Grey and Blue divide
Ever spilt the red life force
The truth?
A shared Blood Line
(c) 2020 Denise I. Griggs
Peter Hunt and his family were slaves, owned by his White father in Mississippi. A further irony was that his Mother was named America, and they lived on a plantation in a town named Liberty.
Mississippi was one of several slave owning states that seceded from the government and declared themselves the new Confederate States. Peter's White half-brother enlisted in their new army. When the Confederate States army fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, it began the Civil War.
As a war maneuver against the Confederacy, on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln emancipated all slaves in the Confederate states, then allowed newly freed slaves to enlist in a new regiment of the Union Army - the United States Colored Troops (USCT). With the addition of the US Colored Troops, the Union Army defeated the Confederate States Army to end the Civil War.
Peter Hunt, through the author, tells the trials and tribulations of his own life story from being a Mulatto slave, to Emancipation, becoming a soldier, a citizen, voting, and owning land.
This story is a "must read," so that teens and young adults may know and understand that life isn't always what it “appears” or is “said” to be.
The Author examines Peter Hunt’s life, from her family’s oral history, historical documentation, DNA, family pictures, and the political, cultural, economic, and world view of American slavery.
*Although Peter died in 1915, the Author chose to write Peter's story in the style of the Writer's Federal Project (WPA) of the 1930's, when African American former slaves were interviewed about their life story.
Author will autograph all purchases.
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