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Gen. O.O. Howard, the white man from Maine for whom Howard University, the leading university for African-Americans, was named, was W.T. Sherman's principal deputy in the march across the South and later took charge of the federal government's Reconstruction efforts. Though Reconstruction failed, Howard successfully fostered the creation of academic institutions for African-Americans. He became an abolitionist, but went further to become a leading...
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Marcus Cedranus is the novel's everyman protagonist. The son of a semiprosperous middle-class family in Roman Britain, Marcus is born into many advantages. He is a Roman citizen, a city dweller in Cirencester, and the son of a former German mercenary who became a Roman citizen after fighting in the army of Emperor Septimius Severus. However, Marcus spirals after a falling-out with his parents. Marcus decides to find his fortune by leaving Britain...
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