What people are saying...

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A well-crafted and historically accurate tale in which the fictional characters in the narrative merge seamlessly and believably with the historical characters, as when Gabe joins the odysseys of John Brown in Kansas and at Harper’s Ferry.

-Robert Dill, John Brown Scholar, Summit County (Ohio) Historical Society, Akron, Ohio

Beat the Drum for Justice, although historical fiction, could be used as a textbook in high school AP History, college history, or literature classes. The characters bring history to life and immerse the reader in the evil of racism, the devastation of the Civil War, the failure of Reconstruction, the terrorism of the Klan, the struggle for civil and political rights, and the critical role the courts and politics played in preserving the caste system. It explains how we got where we are.

-Addison “Spike” Adams, retired judge, Arapahoe County, Colorado.