Description

Biblioasis, paperback

Publication Date: April 12, 2022

Publisher Marketing:It is not wise to waste the life / Against a stubborn will. / Yet would we die as some have done. / Beating a way for the rising sunwrote Arna Bontemps. InThe Day-Breakers, poet Michael Fraser imagines the swords raised and lives lost by the thousands of Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the American Civil Warof whom hundreds were Canadian, fighting for the freedom of their African Brethren. Commemorating the dismal treatment they experienced at the hands of Confederates and White Union soldiers alike, and brilliantly capturing the language and rhythms of their voices and the era in which they lived and fought, FrasersThe Day-Breakersis a powerful and original new perspective on Black experience.