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High-Top Publishing LLC
June 2018
On Sale: June 12, 2018
Featuring: Charlie Griffin; Annie Pie
332 pages ISBN: 156703067X EAN: 9781567030679 Kindle: B07DK5VY4X Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Fiction
A CHILD WENT FORTH follows thirteen year old Charlie
Griffin's evolvement from boyhood to manhood in the summer
of 1855 as he carries money from Brooklyn to Missouri to
give it to the abolitionist leaders there. All the while he
is being hunted by a ferocious crew of adversaries. It is an entirely new look at the era, at slavery, racism,
political and social corruptions and the cast of people in
the novel are an illustrious roll call of characters from
the real to the re-imagined. From Walt Whitman to P.T.
Barnum, to the Brooklyn evangelist and abolitionist Ward
Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. The infamous and
ghost like undertaker and anti-slavery insurrectionist
Erastus Eels. The millionaire gunfighter and free-stater
Butler Philips to his dashing and Oxford educated
counterpart, the assassin Dixie Jack. And then there is Annie Pie, the heroine of the story, who
at thirteen is brave beyond her years, and it is left to her
to save Charlie Griffin, the boy she has come to love.
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