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    Slave Empire

    By Norman Gant

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    BROTHERS IN BLOOD

    The Civil War had ended and with it the cursed institution of slavery. Yet hidden in remote, arid West Texas was a vast slave empire—the shocking, illegal Seaview—where sweating blacks labored under the lash of the brutal Colonel Morgan, where the most sinewy and bull-like submitted to the cruel lust of his wife Maybelle or paid the penalty for refusal by dangling from sycamores.

    Brash knew of this camp, knew he must expose it. He himself was free—Brash,who with his brother had inherited the might and passion for freedom of the now-legendary Chane. But Brash could not live with freedom-not until every man, woman and child still held in bondage share it with him. Some whites would help-the ingenious Senor Carew and a network of secret agents. But it would take all the strength and courage of Brash himself to re-enter the torturing lands and destroy Seaview. For he was a black man and it was his fight to win—even if he must die in the fighting...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossroad Press
    Release dateSep 30, 2015
    ISBN9781311493316
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