The Day Is a White Tablet

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WiDo Publishing

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491_9781937178246

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One week before Lee surrenders at Appomattox, Tench Traymore finds his white cousin dead on a Virginia battlefield. He sets out for home in south Georgia on his cousins horse, his cousins journal strapped to his chest, determined to carry on the narrative.Tench, an educated, green-eyed, black youth, must fight to stay alive in the final days of the American Civil War. Tenchs first-person account offers both an accurate history of the dissolution of the Confederacy and his own coming of age, as his quest gives meaning to the treacherous journey.Through the eyes of a mixed-race youth, Jill Fletcher Pelaez takes us on a danger-filled journey in the final days of the Civil War. . . . As Tench confronts evil and obstacles, he also encounters honor, piety, and dignity. -Donna Meredith, author, The Glass Madonna and The Color of LiesAn action-packed historical fiction....Tench, a black Confederate with green eyes, tries to get home during the last days of the War Between the States....a gripping book. -Charles Kelly Barrow, editor, Black Confederates and Black Southerners in Confederate Armies.

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