Title: Fire on the mountain
First published: 1988
Description: Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry had been successful. Chronicling life in a thriving black nation founded by Brown in the former southeastern United States, this dramatic story opens 100 years later, just as Nova Africa is poised to celebrate its first landing of a spacecraft on Mars. The prosperous black state will soon be tested when the granddaughter of John Brown returns from Africa to reunite with her daughter and share with her a secret that will alter their lives forever.
Subjects: Fiction, alternative history, Southern states, fiction, Slaves, fiction, African americans, fiction, African Americans, Fiction, History, Social conditions, Alternative History
LC classification: PS3552.I7736 F57 1988b