![]() ![]() ![]() Newman by Keeper Richard Etheridge and his crew. He was a keynote speaker in Manteo this past October as part of the 125th anniversary celebration of the heroic October 11, 1896, rescue of schooner E.S. He is the co-author of the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, which was a New Yorker Notable selection and a St. Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. ![]() At the heart of the narrative is Sergeant Richard Etheridge, the son of a slave and her master, raised with some privileges but constantly reminded of his place.ĭavid Wright Faladé is a professor of English at the University of Illinois and a 2021-22 Dorothy and Lewis B. Black Cloud Rising is a dramatic moving account of these soldiers: men who only weeks earlier had been enslaved, but were now Union infantrymen setting to fight their former owners. We are excited to announce that on May 19, 2022, David Wright Faladé will be returning to Manteo as part of the book tour for his new novel, Black Cloud Rising, a powerful fictional account of Richard Etheridge and the African Brigade, the unit of black freedmen who fought for the Union during the Civil War. Collins,Director of Outreach and Education, Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc. ![]()
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