Gloryland
ISBN-13: 9781578051755
Contributor(s): Shelton Johnson
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Counterpoint
Publication Date: 10-08-2010
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£15.99
About the book
Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of African and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave, but his self-image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina in the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his own survival, Elijah walks west to the Nebraska plains and, like many other rootless young black men of the era, joins the US cavalry to become a 'buffalo soldier'...