Robert Jones
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"Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved...
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Publisher
The New England Press
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
First ed.
Description
This volume concludes the long history of the Central Vermont Railway, which previously has been documented by this author in six volumes covering the 1830-1981 period. Volume VII backtracks slightly to 1980 to cover the Central Vermont's final fifteen years of operations in text and illustrations. Central Vermont, Volume VII chronicles a very difficult and often sad period in the history of this venerable New England transportation institution.