The ghost who would not die
Subtitle: a runaway slave, a brutal murder, a mysterious haunting
By: Linda Alice Dewey.
Contributors: Dewey, Linda Alice.
Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781571745859
Subjects: Spirit writings
Description: "Jacobs was a Civil War-era slave who was brutally murdered. In the present day, the author meets Jacobs's ghost and learns the story of his life as a slave, a runaway, and a vagrant in nineteenth-century America"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : Michigan, 2003; title: 1885, darkness; title: 1885, nightmare; title: 1885, outcast; title: 1847, beginning backwards; title: 1852, heaven; title: 1860, changes; title: 1862, in the fields; title: 1862, chains; title: 1862, sold; title: 1862, sight; title: 1863, escape; title: 1863, freedom; title: 1863, soldiers; title: 1863, the attack; title: 1863, the window; title: 1863, finding home; title: 1865, finding love; title: 1866, shantytown; title: 1885, shadows; title: 1935, helping; title: 1995, connections; title: 2003, journey; title: 2003, contact; title: 2003, nothing; title: 2006, brightness; title: Epilogue : author's journal.