Eighty Guns Afloat: The Capture of a Slave Runner: Historical Fiction Based on the True Story of How a Confederate War Hero Emancipates 400 Slaves by Mike Rogers

Author:Mike Rogers [Rogers, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, United States, African American, Historical Fiction, African
Amazon: B00TM9JARY
Published: 2015-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

“Mr. Block,” I called out over the hammer of the raindrops, “Throw back the boards over the main hatch and let our dusky friends get some benefit of this.”

In half an hour the rain ceased, but it was as calm and ominous as ever. I knew this was but the forerunner of something worse to follow, and we had not long to wait, for suddenly a blinding flash of lightning darted through the gloom from east to west, followed by one in the opposite direction. Without intermission, one blaze after another and thunder crashing until our eyes were blinded and our ears deafened, a thousand times ten thousand pieces of artillery thundered away.

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