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The Pixie Light: A Forest Folk Tale
The first time John Chavis saw the mysterious orb of light, he was serving in General Washington’s Continental Army at Yorktown. It was years later, in the company of his young friends Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, that John discovered the existence of magical creatures — and, later still, their connection to the glowing globe he saw again over the forested campus of his beloved college. Why was the strange little man shining his Pixie Light? And why was he being tracked by a hulking, fire-spewing Hellhound? As a pioneering African-American educator, John Chavis had trained generations of scholars, professionals, even congressmen. Now it was up to him to combat a grave threat to the republic itself!
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The Education Pioneer
A Tradition of Leadership
A Tradition of Leadership
A Princeton-trained minister, teacher, and Revolutionary War veteran, John Chavis must confront an emerging threat to his state and the American republic as a whole.
A Tradition of Leadership
A Tradition of Leadership
A Tradition of Leadership
John Chavis came from a mixed-race community where free people of color prized education and self-reliance — and produced many great leaders in the long struggle for liberation.
A Seeker of Knowledge
A Tradition of Leadership
Black of Fur and Eyes Aflame
The wily ranger of the Pixie colony in Norfolk first runs into John Chavis at Yorktown. When next they meet, Leski offers to grant John’s fondest wish.
Black of Fur and Eyes Aflame
Black of Fur and Eyes Aflame
Black of Fur and Eyes Aflame
You’ll find ferocious Hellhounds in the Greek legend of Cerebus, Norse myths of Garmr and Ragnarok, and folktales of demon dogs stalking the mountains of Virginia and the Carolinas.
Rebellion and Reaction
Black of Fur and Eyes Aflame
The Year the Capitols Burned
After the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, whites in Virginia and the Carolinas responded with mob violence, executions, and laws that shut down schools such as the Chavis academy.
The Year the Capitols Burned
Black of Fur and Eyes Aflame
The Year the Capitols Burned
Within the space of three weeks, two North Carolina landmarks — its original Old State House in Fayetteville and the State Capitol in Raleigh — were destroyed by fire. A coincidence?
A Passionate Appeal
What Beckons from the Forest
What Beckons from the Forest
Born free in Wilmington, NC, David Walker settled in Boston, founded businesses, aided runaway slaves, and wrote the influential Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829.
What Beckons from the Forest
What Beckons from the Forest
What Beckons from the Forest
Tales of imps using ghostly light to lead travelers astray abound in the folklore of the British Isles, bearing such names as Hinkypunk, Ignis Fatuus, Jack-o-Lantern, Will-o-the-Wisp, and Pixie Light.
Chronicler of Conflict
What Beckons from the Forest
Chronicler of Conflict
Joining the Patriot army at 15, Joseph Plumb Martin shivers at Valley Forge, fights at Monmouth, and writes an invaluable memoir of the American War of Independence.