He was a leader in the slave community in that - on Roanoke Island. SIMON: What should we know about him when we meet him at, I guess, about the age of 21?įALADE: Richard Etheridge - he just always stood out from a very young age. Thanks so much for being with us.ĭAVID WRIGHT FALADE: Thanks for having me. David Wright Falade now teaches English at the University of Illinois and is a fellow at the New York Public Library - joins us now from New York. Civil War, a unit that hunted down Confederate guerillas in North Carolina in the fall of 1863. Richard Etheridge would become a leader of the African Brigade during the U.S. He was a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University in the early 1990s when he began to hear about the life of Richard Etheridge, who was born into slavery on Roanoke Island, the biological son of the man who enslaved him and taught how to read and write by his white half-sister. "Black Cloud Rising" has been taking shape for a long time in the mind of the novelist David Wright Falade.
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