![]() ![]() Among them was Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the real-life historical figure and beating heart of David Wright Faladé's mesmerizing debut adult novel, Black Cloud Rising.Ī complicated but fascinating figure, Etheridge is born a "Banker" (i.e., a native of Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks), the progeny of an enslaved mother, who is called Ma'am in the novel, and their enslaver, called John B. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, under the command of fiery abolitionist, one-armed General Edward Augustus Wild, set out for a three-week raid to root out Confederate Partisan Rangers and free the remaining enslaved. Along with the soldiers of Abraham came emancipation for the enslaved and - for the men - the opportunity to sign up for the Union cause. ![]() Along the Virginia Tidewater region, Union forces were in control and pushing into eastern North Carolina, with a tentative toehold in the Outer Banks. In this novel based on a little-known Civil War episode, a formerly enslaved man takes to the battlefield as a Union soldier and wrestles with his identity.īy late fall of 1863, the American Civil War was in its pivotal third year. ![]()
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