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The Slavery Debate in 19th Century America    by Kyle W. Bell
Price: $2.99 USD. 15650 words. Published on December 18, 2009. .

Slavery is an issue that the United States has had to deal with since the early British colonies. The moral, cultural, economic and political impact of slavery in the United States is profound in its magnitude. Slavery shaped the way our nation was formed in everything from political decisions regarding territory to legal recognition and rights of the nation's inhabitants.
Give Me Your Name    by Karen Horst
Price: $4.00 USD. 86350 words. Published on January 9, 2011. .

After Julia Hamilton's placid life is changed by a horrifying encounter with a runaway slave, she becomes a covert to the abolitionist cause. Her parents send her away from Boston to a girl's school in Charleston but they can't get her to change her mind about slavery. Friends in Bleeding Kansas and a young man convince her to go west for the cause.
Freedom's Southern Line    by Karen Horst
Price: $4.00 USD. 153960 words. Published on March 26, 2011. .

After their elopement, Julia Hamilton and Peter Anderson head west to join the fight for freedom in Kansas. The troubles start as soon as they arrive. Lawrence is burned and sacked and John Brown exacts retribution for it. After the summer of 1856 when slave power is finally broken in Kansas, Peter starts a business and becomes a wealthy man. But tragedy follows and the worst is yet to come b
A Grandfather's Legacy    by Joe C Combs 2nd
Price: Free! 1210 words. Published on May 8, 2011. .

A story about a families sacrifice during the civil war and the funny conclusion that makes their abolitionists sacrifices moot.
Four Summers Waiting    by Mary Fremont Schoenecker
Price: $1.99 USD. 65290 words. Published on June 24, 2011. .

This Civil War epic describes a young woman's determination to help causes she believes in.Caught up in a nation at war,Maria strives to balance her love for a Union surgeon with her father's opposition to the war. Authentic diary excerpts and letters chronicle the struggles and hopes of Maria and Henry. Fiction based on fact, readers learn much about restrictions placed on women of the 1800's.
Obscure Stories of the Civil War    by Paul Herbert
Price: $4.99 USD. 58110 words. Published on November 3, 2011. .

This collection of short stories narrates the history of many obscure and fascinating Civil War events.
Each Other    by Pamela Erickson
Price: $4.99 USD. 65670 words. Published on April 1, 2012. .

Each Other: A Novel is the story of Annie Cunningham, a Union spy during the (American) Civil War and the complications created against the backdrop of her love affair with Warren Dodd, a Confederate Captain. Beginning and ending in 1891, the novel wraps around a story of Annie and Warren through the events of 1862 in northern Virginia.
The Salvationist    by Nancy Cole Silverman
Price: $0.99 USD. 10300 words. Published by MindWings on May 9, 2012. .

Fannie Johnston, a young 22 year-old cadet on her first march through one of America’s small western mining towns in 1880, pulls a young girl from the clutches of a Bisbee, Arizona mining tycoon and accidentally shoots him. She is suddenly propelled to the headlines of the local paper and becomes the center of a newspaper war.