Freedom and Justice by Rifle

By Samuel McCoy

He was born property. He intends to die a free man.

Louisiana, the 1840s.

James Jackson has spent his young life enslaved on a sugar plantation, surviving by watching, learning, and never letting the men who own his body claim the last free part of his mind.

Then one violent night changes everything.

With a rifle on his back and the law behind him, James runs west toward Texas and the Rio Grande, into a vast borderland where nations, languages, cultures, and ideas of freedom collide. There, a hunted young man begins the difficult work of becoming something he has never been allowed to imagine: a man with his own name, his own trade, his own friends, and a future built by his own hands.

Along the river, James finds teachers, allies, rivals, and Nayeli Castellanos a sharp-minded trader's daughter who sees through men as easily as she balances a ledger. But freedom on the frontier is never guaranteed. The law protects some people better than others, violence travels easily, and the past has a long reach.

Told in the voice of a man remembering the legend James Jackson became, Freedom and Justice by Rifle is a sweeping historical Western about survival, love, found family, resistance, and the difference between the law and what is right.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJT3Z7X3
• ISBN13: 9798174392083
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"