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    Union's Daughter
    Union's Daughter
    Union's Daughter
    Audiobook10 hours

    Union's Daughter

    Written by Sabra Waldfogel

    Narrated by Allyson Johnson

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    About this audiobook

    One woman abhors her past. The other fights for freedom. Will their battle for emancipation leave them casualties of war?

    South Carolina, 1862. Emily Jarvie is determined to send her family's slave-owning history to its grave. When the Union Army captures the Sea Islands, she returns to the south to teach the former slaves, part of the Army's unusual experiment in racial equality. Despite her loyalty to the Union cause, her Southern heritage raises a brick wall of Yankee suspicion.

    Oberlin College, Ohio. Fugitive slave Caro Jarvie longs to pick up a rifle to fight for freedom. But as a woman, she has to settle for reporting on the war second-hand from the Union Army camp in the Sea Islands. When she learns that Harriet Tubman is in South Carolina to lead a military mission to free slaves, Caro seizes her chance to enter the fray.

    As Emily and Caro struggle to bury the past, old loves and new flames open a door to the future they both hope for. But with the war for America's soul raging ever closer, each woman finds her strength tested as she strives for a better tomorrow.

    Can they forge a legacy of love and acceptance during a time of turmoil and death?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 23, 2020
    ISBN9781705238264
    Union's Daughter
    Author

    Sabra Waldfogel

    Sabra Waldfogel grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but has always been fascinated by the drama of slavery and freedom in the South, before and after the Civil War. She studied history at Harvard University and received her PhD in American history from the University of Minnesota. Since then, she has worked as a technical writer and has written about historic architecture for Old House Journal and Arts and Crafts Homes. Waldfogel’s short story “Yemaya” appeared in Sixfold’s Winter 2013 fiction issue. In her free time, she collects and sells antiques with her husband. Sister of Mine is her first novel.

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      I made it through exactly 3 minutes and 18 seconds of narration. The book cover looked interesting but I guess I'll have to explore the book in print. I can't figure out why people are hired to read out books when their personal voice sounds metallic and mean, their style sounds like a TV commercial, and their attempts at accents and character voices are hopelessly explosive and amateurish. You can hear that character voices are grafted in because the narrator got them so wrong at first try. Excellent voice actors (as far as I can tell) don't try to vary their voice over an octave, something many female narrators achieve only by sounding miserable, breathless and semi-gruff when trying to do a male character. Excellent actors vary tone, volume, pattern of speaking, sometimes a bit of accent; and they match the related narration ("he said as he turned to her") in almost the same voice. Great narrations like that? I don't even recall afterwards whether a male or female voiced the book.