"The Cost of Freedom" Topic

By James R. Arnold

"When the Secret Committee's agent, Abner Means, arrives in Harpers Ferry to meet with John Brown and his band of raiders, no one suspects that the United States is about to be thrust into civil war. The Cost of Freedom follows the fortunes of three young people — twenty-two-year-old Amanda Holland and her cousins, Armistead and Arminius "Min" Carter — who together with others, both ordinary and powerful, are participants in and witnesses to the early years of the Civil War.

The action ranges from Amanda's Holland Hall plantation to a prosperous nearby Quaker farm, home of the seductive Rachel and her pacifist father, to the field of Manassas where the forces of secession and union collide in battle. Amidst a slowly maturing love, Amanda and Armistead confront conflicting loyalties to family, state, and country as war rends the social fabric that binds their close-knit family. The powerful portrayal of black people — enslaved and free — places slavery in its proper context while revealing the strength of black aspirations. Through it all lurks the shadowy figure of Abner Means, a free-lance intelligence agent and ruthless Abolitionist. In this well-researched work of historical fiction, author James R. Arnold has chosen northern Virginia, the fault line of national divide, to illustrate how individuals, buffeted by events greater than themselves, answered the most basic questions of principles and loyalty as the cost of freedom becomes apparent. It is a page-turning adventure story and a penetrating depiction of character challenged by stark circumstance."

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Amicalement
Armand

Just reading this and knowing of the area where this is written about, I will pass..it seems the author didn't do a lot of geographical research and is jumping on the tired old PC bandwagon and for some reason while reading this description, I kept hearing the theme from "North and South" going through my head…

I'll pass…thank you.

Thanks for your guidance my friend!.

Amicalement
Armand

I'm not sure how one gets PC or unPC from that blurb. All I get is that it's missing a line about her "heaving bosoms" and "straining bodice." If anything, lines like "places slavery in its proper context" could be read as trying to appease Southern Apologist (long suffering plantation owners caught in tradition but not really evil despite promulgating one of the most evil institutions in history).

promulgate |ˈpräməlˌgāt, prōˈməl-|
verb [ with obj. ]
promote or make widely known (an idea or cause): these objectives have to be promulgated within the organization.
• put (a law or decree) into effect by official proclamation: in January 1852, the new constitution was promulgated.

That is not the word you are looking for.