Entangled In Freedom: A Civil War Story: The Street Life Series Youth Edition
by Ann Dewitt and Kevin M. Weeks

"""From the beginning of this [Civil War] struggle, [African Americans] took part —-
on the Union side thousands of run-a-way slaves joined the Army and Navy.
Likewise thousands took part on the Confederate side
actuated by a type of loyalty unsurpassed in human annals.""
~West A. Hamilton, Colonel, Infantry Reserve
Hampton Conference on National Defense (November 1940)


Travel with 22 year old Isaac through the dirt streets of Oxford (Georgia), Big Shanty (Georgia) and on over to Cumberland Gap (Tennessee) as he serves with the 42nd Regiment Georgia Volunteers. Decades after Daniel Boone blazed the Wilderness Trail, witness how Isaac is front and center as the Confederate and Union armies skirmish for strategic supply lines required for outlying Civil War battle campaigns. Also, decipher the mitigating factors contributing to Isaac going to war with Abraham Green, a yeoman farmer and slaveholder of Isaac.
This human-interest centric novel further explores the intertwined relationship between master, slave, and the dynamics leading up to a Confederate Congress proposal to enlist African-American troops in the latter part of the American Civil War. Like never before, this electrifying page turner sparks novice readers and Civil War zealots alike into debating the best kept factual secrets concerning African-American Confederate soldiers.
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