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Frederick Radcliff is a descendant of the family that founded Atlantis's first settlement, and his grandfather Victor led the army against England to win the nation's independence. But he is also a black slave, unable to prove his lineage, and forced to labor on a cotton plantation in the southern region of the country.Frederick feels the color of his skin shouldn't keep him from having the same freedoms his ancestors fought and died for. So he becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of show more slaves determined to free all of his brethren across Atlantis. show lessTags
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Liberating Atlantis is the third book in Harry Turtledove’s Atlantis series and my first of any from it. This book covers those parts of what if and alternative history and centers on events in a large island called Atlantis. Liberating Atlantis deals with a slave revolt in the United States of Atlantis and has obvious parallels to the pre Civil war south of the United States of America. The book is a easy and fun read for those history buffs or what if buffs. I think anyone picking up this book will enjoy it.
If this is the one where crossbows take the place of rifles, that doesn't work, too much mass to carry.
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Harry Turtledove was born in Los Angeles, California on June 14, 1949. He received a Ph.D. in Byzantine history from UCLA in 1977. From the late 1970's to the early 1980's, he worked as a technical writer for the Los Angeles County Office of Education. He left in 1991 to become full-time writer. His first two novels, Wereblood and Werenight, were show more published in 1979 under the pseudonym Eric G. Iverson because his editor did not think people would believe that Turtledove was his real name. He used this name until 1985 when he published Herbig-Haro and And So to Bed under his real name. He has received numerous awards including the Homer Award for Short Story for Designated Hitter in 1990, the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction for Guns of the Southand in 1993, and the Hugo Award for Novella for Down in the Bottomlands in 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Liberating Atlantis
- Original title
- Liberating Atlantis
- Original publication date
- 2010-11
- People/Characters
- Frederick Radcliff
- Important places
- Atlantis
- First words
- If not for the floorboard that came up at one end, it might all have happened differently.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They walked past the secretary and into the night together.
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
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