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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
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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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