Sundering Slavery
(2025)Emancipation & Edification
(The seventh book in the Snakebit series)
A novel by John Poniske
A Nation Divided. Families Torn. A War That Changes Everything.
When Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman cross paths in the capital, their unlikely conversation reveals just how much they share and how much America stands to lose. It is the bloody second year of the Civil War. Gettysburg has fallen. Vicksburg is gone. The Confederacy reels, yet Jefferson Davis refuses to surrender.
In West Maryland, two neighboring families embody the nation’s fracture. The McCunes, slave-owners divided among themselves, clash with the abolitionist Garretts, who question whether war is the only path to freedom. Brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends each is forced to choose a side as the conflict reaches from prison cells to presidential chambers, from steamships to dining tables, and from bustling Baltimore streets to the smoke of southern battlefields.
As the war rages, African American soldiers shock a divided nation by taking up arms, altering the fate of slavery forever. And when Ulysses S. Grant launches his relentless Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee, the struggle reaches its shattering climax earning Grant a name that will haunt history: The Butcher.
Sundering Slavery, Book Seven in John Poniske’s sweeping 16 volume saga, continues the epic journey through America’s darkest conflict where ordinary families and towering figures alike are forever changed by the Civil War.
Genre: Historical
When Frederick Douglass and Walt Whitman cross paths in the capital, their unlikely conversation reveals just how much they share and how much America stands to lose. It is the bloody second year of the Civil War. Gettysburg has fallen. Vicksburg is gone. The Confederacy reels, yet Jefferson Davis refuses to surrender.
In West Maryland, two neighboring families embody the nation’s fracture. The McCunes, slave-owners divided among themselves, clash with the abolitionist Garretts, who question whether war is the only path to freedom. Brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends each is forced to choose a side as the conflict reaches from prison cells to presidential chambers, from steamships to dining tables, and from bustling Baltimore streets to the smoke of southern battlefields.
As the war rages, African American soldiers shock a divided nation by taking up arms, altering the fate of slavery forever. And when Ulysses S. Grant launches his relentless Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee, the struggle reaches its shattering climax earning Grant a name that will haunt history: The Butcher.
Sundering Slavery, Book Seven in John Poniske’s sweeping 16 volume saga, continues the epic journey through America’s darkest conflict where ordinary families and towering figures alike are forever changed by the Civil War.
Genre: Historical
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