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100 1  Falade, David Wright. 
245 10 Black cloud rising|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]
       |cDavid Wright Falade. 
260    LaVergne :|bGrove Press,|c2022. 
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520    Already excerpted in the  New Yorker ,  Black Cloud Rising
       is a compelling and important historical novel that takes 
       us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and 
       women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom  By 
       fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater,
       Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North 
       Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of 
       freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but 
       Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In 
       December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of 
       these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild—a 
       one-armed, impassioned abolitionist—set out from 
       Portsmouth to hunt down the rebel guerillas and extinguish
       the threat.  From this little-known historical episode 
       comes  Black Cloud Rising , a dramatic, moving account of 
       these soldiers—men who only weeks earlier had been 
       enslaved, but were now Union infantrymen setting out to 
       fight their former owners. At the heart of the narrative 
       is Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her 
       master, raised with some privileges but constantly 
       reminded of his place. Deeply conflicted about his past, 
       Richard is eager to show himself to be a credit to his 
       race. As the African Brigade conducts raids through the 
       areas occupied by the Confederate Partisan Rangers, he and
       his comrades recognize that they are fighting for more 
       than territory. Wild's mission is to prove that his troops
       can be trusted as soldiers in combat. And because many of 
       the men have fled from the very plantations in their path,
       each raid is also an opportunity to free loved ones left 
       behind. For Richard, this means the possibility of 
       reuniting with Fanny, the woman he hopes to marry one day.
       With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between 
       fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and 
       courage,  Black Cloud Rising  offers a compelling and 
       nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the 
       threshold to freedom. 
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