Touched with Fire
by Christopher Datta
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Pub Date Jun 24 2014 | Archive Date Dec 12 2014
Description
Ellen Craft is property
In this case, of her half-sister Debra, to whom she was given as a wedding gift. The illegitimate daughter of a Georgia plantation owner and a house slave, she learned to hate her own image, which so closely resembled that of her “father:” the same wiry build, the same blue eyes, and the same pale—indeed, lily-white—skin.
Ellen lives a solitary life until she falls, unexpectedly, in love with a dark-skinned slave named William Craft, and together they devise a plan to run North. Ellie will pose as a gentleman planter bound for Philadelphia accompanied by his “boy” Will. They make it as far as Baltimore when Will is turned back, and Ellie has no choice but continue. With no way of knowing if he is dead or alive, she resolves to make a second journey—South again. And so Elijah Craft enlists with the 125th Ohio Volunteers of the Union Army: she will literally fight her way back to her husband.
Eli/Ellie’s journey is the story of an extraordinary individual and an abiding love, but also of the corrosive effects of slavery, and of a nation at a watershed moment.
Advance Praise
"The story tells of how a brave and resilient black woman went to great lengths to gain not only her freedom, but that of the man she loved.” - Amazon Reviewer Kelley McCormick
“Christopher Datta’s Touched with Fire is in that fine American tradition of
the works of Howard Fast and John Jakes. His characters are richly drawn and he
has great command of the history to which he has attached his narrative. Also,
as Datta’s deliberate and sincere historical fiction wends its way through this
abject time in our nation’s youth, he keenly goes about Forest Gumping the
reader through a Who’s Who of the Civil War. Touched with Fire is a welcome
addition to the ever-increasing canon of Civil War fiction.” -E. Warren
Perry, Jr., author, Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War
“I was completely on edge the whole time…a fantastic story that engaged in its
action scenes and tempered them with its easy dialog.” -Sabrina at Romantic
Historical Lovers (Four-star review)
"If you have any interest in The Civil War, this is a must have for your
book collection; it truly is spectacular." -Reader review from Barbara270
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781490498836 |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
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