In an excerpt from Bland Simpson’s nonfiction novel Two Captains from Carolina, we get a glimpse of Moses Grandy’s early career as a boatman—the freedom he felt on the water and the opportunities that lay ahead. [...]
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In this video, Bland Simpson reads from his epic tale of race and war, “Two Captains from Carolina,” at UNC’s Bull’s Head Bookshop, November 13, 2012. [...] Bland Simpson, author of Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War, reveals how the stories of two men can tell the saga of race in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. [...] 
The NY Times’ Opinionator blog is running a series entitled Disunion that looks at the events of the Civil War as they happened. Gregory Downs is one of several UNC Press authors they have featured who shares their expertise on different aspects of the Civil War. North Carolina—and much of the east coast—was recently battered [...] 
Listen to Brundage, Reid, Glatthaar, Edwards, & Williams [...] |
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