Name: The First Uniform (en Inglés)
SKU: 69291605
Price: 82.75 PEN
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Author: Carl Williams
ISBN: 9798951570505

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Inkylines & Words

Autor

Carl Williams

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

208

ISBN13

9798951570505

The First Uniform (en Inglés)

Carl Williams (Autor) · Inkylines & Words · Libro Físico

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Reseña del libro "The First Uniform (en Inglés)"

Isaiah Freeman steps out of bondage with a dollar's worth of nothing and one conviction, that a man should own the ground he stands on and the name he answers to. When the Army raises its first colored regiments, he rides west with the Ninth Cavalry, certain that the blue coat is the freedom he was promised. The frontier teaches him otherwise. He learns to hold a saddle through a killing cold, to read country, to bury friends under wooden markers in ground that was never theirs, and to feel the slow hard truth settle into him: that the coat the country gives can be taken back, that it has rented his courage and means to keep the change, and that the freedom in this wide land is narrower than a rifle sight.So Isaiah takes the coat off and does the harder thing. He builds. Out of the war's wreckage, he founds a town in Georgia, Liberty Grove, and with Ruth, who walks beside him into every hardship, he plants the one practice that will outlast every uniform his blood will ever wear. He writes the names down. He opens a family Bible and sets at the head of it the name of the woman who bore him into slavery and died free, so that no Freeman after her will be lost to the silence the country prefers, and he teaches his children that to say a name is to refuse a death.Half a century on, an old man sets a cedar chest open on the floor and lifts out the first thing in it, a cavalry hat gone soft with the years, and begins the long telling. This is where the chest begins, and the family's hundred-year war against forgetting. Read more