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An Escaped Slave Joins the Union Army and Defeats a Vicious Slave Patrol Captain

Jackboy's constant attempts to escape pushed his slave masters on Barbados too far, so they split up his whole family and sold them off. His father’s last words had been, “It’s okay, son, don’t never give up.” Years later, he slips away from a South Carolina plantation, evades the Confederacy’s most vicious slave patrol captain, and finds Sherman’s Army in Georgia. A maverick Union lieutenant takes Jackboy under his wing, enlists him as a soldier, and teaches him to read, write, and use a Henry rifle. He quickly rises to sergeant and recruits an all-black squad of heavily armed raiders who fear him more than the Confederates. On a mission to plunder enemy assets, Jackboy learns the same depraved slave patroller who once hunted him has now lured southern elites into committing the Civil War’s worst atrocity against blacks. With no time to seek approval or wait for reinforcements, he decides to launch a rescue mission. What he finds is worse than anyone could have imagined. In the heat of battle, Jackboy earns personal redemption when he discovers something he thought had been lost forever.