Standing at the scratch line
Oklahoma, fiction
African American Participation
African American soldiers
Louisiana, fiction
African American families
African American men
Fiction, war & military
African americans, fiction
Fiction, action & adventure
World War, 1914-1918
Fiction, historical
Fiction, historical, general
African Americans
Fiction
The story opens in 1916 in the steamy bayous of Louisiana. Young LeRoi "King" Tremain and his uncle Jake attempt a raid on a rival family's compound. In doing so, Jake dies, but not before LeRoi kills two corrupt white deputies. Forced by his family to leave everything he knows until the heat dies d…
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