{"id":2951,"date":"2006-07-04T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:32","slug":"incivil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2951","title":{"rendered":"Incivil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author Ann Rinaldi<\/a> is practically a household name in terms of children’s and young adult historical fiction. Rinaldi’s research and meticulous recreation of historical times gives a peek into the lives and times of even some of the most minor players in American History. In Mine Eyes Have Seen<\/a>, Rinaldi finds and recreates the life of Annie Brown, daughter of anti-slavery leader John Brown. Through careful research, Rinaldi discovered what it was like to be a child of the fiery and eccentric abolitionist, and what it was like the year before the infamous raid on Harper’s Ferry,<\/a> which was one of the final triggers that launched the Civil War.<\/p>\n

The story is tragic, since Annie, on the periphery of events that she could not hope to influence, so wishes to be strong and act — but her womanhood makes her all but useless to her father. As her brothers are killed or scattered, all she has left, in the end, is herself. A child no more fatherless than she had been when her father was alive, the daughter of an historic person, a tiny cipher on the page of history, in Rinaldi’s work, Annie Brown finally gets her chance to shine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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