Gloryland

by Shelton Johnson

Book Overview

"A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized." --Ken Burns, American filmmaker

Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black 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 as a teenager,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578051754
• ISBN13: 9781578051755
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"