Tales From a Revolution: South-Carolina
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Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 216
Raising tobacco and his children were Justin’s priorities, until a British patrol strikes his community and drives him to take up arms in the cause of American independence. His actions echo down through the generations to change everything for his descendants.
Noting the color of the leaves, Justin Harris whispered reassurance to his horse as the young mare picked her way down a rocky slope. It certainly was a gorgeous autumn day, and he was eager to return to his home and family. As he began to see familiar landmarks along the road, he felt the natural tension between his shoulders start to relax.
READ MOREThe Cherokee had been relatively peaceful for the past few years, but the French had certainly been stirring up trouble all up and down the seaboard, supplying arms and rum to the Indians in an effort to disrupt trade and settlement in the English Colonies. Any time he traveled beyond the settled region around his home, Justin felt that old tension between his shoulder blades build up, as though expecting the sharpened head of an arrow to bite in at any moment.
Now, though, with the late afternoon sun slanting through the trees and the trilling of the songbirds he knew so well ringing in his ears, he could relax. As he came to the bottom of the hardscrabble slope, he could see the fresh marks of other travelers on this road. Horse droppings that looked to be from only this morning made him wonder who was traveling ahead of him, and regret that he had not met his fellow traveler on the road.
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