Cry Freedom - Winds of Freedom, Bk 1 Author:Marlo M. Schalesky The year is 1743, a time of adventure, hope, and betrayal. — In the English colonies a religious revival, which will later be named The Great Awakening, is sweeping through every class of people, drawing the wealthy and common alike into a new and personal experience with God. Through the preaching of a young Englishman named George Whitefield, a... more »nd others like him, reliance on religious traditions is crumbling as people, awakened to their sinful state, turn to the mercy and forgiveness of the risen Christ.
But as the American colonists find their peace with God, England and France plot for war, the third of four such conflicts waged by the French and British for control of North America.
On the Pennsylvanian frontier, tensions mount as the Shawnee and Delaware ally with the French. Here the drums of war have already begun to beat. French-led war bands advance. Settlers tremble. Brave men, driven by the hope of freedom, grip their muskets in desperate hands.
And, in the midst of it all, one half-breed Indian girl dreams of what it means to be free . . .« less