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The New York Times best-selling author of the Oprah Reserve Club Pick and choose Cane River brings us the evocative account of an once-enslaved man who purchases his freedom after providing as a translator through the American Indian Wars, and his granddaughter, who sustains his legacy of courage. Cow Tom, delivered into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian key before his 10th birthday, possessed an extraordinary gift: the ability to master languages. As the new country developed westward, and Indians, settlers, and blacks came into constant contact, Cow Tom became an integral translator for his Creek professional and was chosen out to US military services generals. His expertise received him money - but would it also grant him freedom? And what would become of him and his family in the aftermath of the Civil War and the Indian Removal westward? Cow Tom's legacy lives on - especially in the courageous nature of his granddaughter Rose. She increases to control of the family as they have difficulties against politics and societal hostility intention on keeping blacks and Indians oppressed. But through it all, her grandfather's indelible mark of courage inspires her - at heart, in nature, and in a family group legacy that never dies. Written in two parts portraying the parallel lives of Cow Tom and Rose, Citizens Creek is a superbly rendered novel that needs the listener deep into just a little known section of American history. It really is a breathtaking story of personal information, community, family - and above all, the energy of a person's will to produce a difference.
