Manassas
Subtitle: a novel of the war
By: Upton Sinclair ; introduction by Kent Gramm.
Contributors: Gramm, Kent.; United States Civil War Center.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Classics of Civil War fiction
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 -- Fiction; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Manassas: A Novel of the War centers on the moral dimension of the conflict as it traces a young Mississippi boy's conversion from pro-slavery Southerner to abolitionist Union soldier." "Allan Montague, born on a Mississippi plantation about twenty years before the Civil War, has grown up with slavery and considers it natural. When his father moves to Boston for business and takes the boy with him, young Allan carries a knife given to him by his cousin to use in killing abolitionists.".

"The first abolitionist young Allan meets in Boston is Levi Coffin, the reputed founder of the Underground Railroad. In this first of many meetings with historical figures, Allan forms a friendship with Coffin, who eventually takes him to hear a speech by former slave Frederick Douglass.

Douglass's powerful words cement Allan's transformation into an abolitionist - a transformation that will lead him back to his Deep South home with the hope of freeing slaves and eventually back to the north and the fateful Battle of Manassas."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Published in cooperation with the United States Civil War Center."