Patriot's Reward [NOOK Book]

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In Patriot's Reward meet an unforgettable cast of characters; James Clarkson — Will's owner, teacher and a successful tanner, Caesar Bannister — King of the Negro Court in Portsmouth, Abigail Wentworth — Will's first wife and a servant to Governor Wentworth's family, and many others from colonial America.
The time is 1755, over a hundred years before the American Civil War. The place, the British royal province of New Hampshire, far north of King George III's southern colonies ...
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Overview

In Patriot's Reward meet an unforgettable cast of characters; James Clarkson — Will's owner, teacher and a successful tanner, Caesar Bannister — King of the Negro Court in Portsmouth, Abigail Wentworth — Will's first wife and a servant to Governor Wentworth's family, and many others from colonial America.
The time is 1755, over a hundred years before the American Civil War. The place, the British royal province of New Hampshire, far north of King George III's southern colonies in Virginia and the Carolinas with their extensive plantations maintained by scores of African slaves.
During the next thirty-five years the white residents of this northern region will have their freedom challenged, take up arms to preserve it, and, along with the twelve other Atlantic seaboard colonies, seek to establish a new government of their own that will treat them fairly and equally.
In the same period a young African enslaved in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, chafes at his bondage and embarks on his personal struggle to attain the same freedoms sought by his white owners. He fights in the same war in the name of the same lofty principles.
Maybe it was a mistake.

Contrary to prevailing widespread belief, at least a few slaves in the eighteenth century were educated and astute observers of the radical events and thoughts boiling in the colonies where they were captive. Will Clarkson is one of these and also, like many other blacks, an active player for himself and his brethren on the new American stage.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781931807845
  • Publisher: Randall, Peter E. Publisher
  • Publication date: 12/7/2011
  • Series: Patriot's Reward Series
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 332
  • Sales rank: 832,897
  • File size: 652 KB

Meet the Author

Stephen Clarkson is a graduate of Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced law in NYC and Washington, D.C., and was VP, General Counsel, and Secretary of Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. Stephen Clarkson is a resident of Rye, NH, Palm Beach, FL and Bethesda, Maryland.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 28, 2007

    Fascinating historical-fiction...on many levels

    This title will surprise most readers, albeit in different -- and hopefully numerous -- ways. The story, set mostly in coastal New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War era, follows the quest of Will Clarkson, an actual slave owned by the author's ancestors, for his freedom beginning with his capture in Africa. The same things that drove author Clarkson to write about, and apparently identify with, the slave Clarkson will likely keep most readers captivated. Neither of the two Clarksons manage to come up with a singular answer that explains what compelled the people of the time to create and sustain slavery...but they both explore the subtleties, nuances, ironies, hypocrisies, and inertial forces that empowered what we, today, consider such an obviously reprehensible institution. The story is for all Americans...as its unconventional setting (both temporal and geographical) aid the reader in seeing how the legacy of slavery in America transcends time and place...and even reaches its dark hand into the hearts and minds of all of us today. Don't look for a sermon here. Author Clarkson's success -- like Slave Clarkson's goal -- is to get people to step back and take a look at slavery from a different perspective. What the reader takes from this story is up to the reader. The author also weaves a number of Revolutionary War battles into the story as Will Clarkson takes up arms to fight for the colonists' freedom, providing an added bonus for readers who enjoy battlefield accounts. Yet for those of us (like me) who aren't partial to such accounts, the author keeps us engaged by delivering comprehensible descriptions of the battles and keeping the storyline -- and the evolution of the main character -- the central focus throughout these military engagements. Readers will also appreciate the author's generous endnotes that explain in a most satisfying detail where the lines between fact and fiction are drawn, with sources cited for the historical intersections and explanations for his detours and bridges and side passages as he spins his captivating tale.

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