Project Gutenberg 2010-11-29 Public domain in the USA. 77 Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia) 1810 1886 Stephens, Ann Sophia Winterbotham Slick, Jonathan The Gold Brick Reading ease score: 79.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. E-text prepared by Roberta Staehlin, TIA, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) "The Gold Brick" by Ann S. Stephens is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. The narrative begins amidst the chaos of the Haitian Revolution, focusing on Captain Mason and the carefully orchestrated rescue of a mother and her young son during a brutal massacre in Port au Prince. The storyline explores themes of violence, survival, and the human condition against a backdrop of racial tensions and sacrifice. The opening of "The Gold Brick" sets a dramatic scene on a ship anchored in the harbor amid the turmoil of an insurrection, where the captain wrestles with his moral duty to save the victims of a massacre while grappling with the constraints of his position. As chaos unfolds on the shore, he and his crew make a determined attempt to rescue a mother and her child. The mother ultimately succumbs to the violence, leaving her son, Paul, to find solace in the care of a loyal slave named Jube. The chapter paints a poignant picture of love, loss, and loyalty amidst the backdrop of violent upheaval, establishing the emotional stakes that will carry throughout the novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 965401 965138 2024-10-14T13:27:21.085263 2023-09-15T07:19:39.865437 text/html text/html 985902 2010-11-29T11:43:47 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 340894 2010-11-29T11:49:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 407708 2024-10-14T13:27:41.274164 application/epub+zip 419650 2024-10-14T13:27:26.082404 application/epub+zip 417591 2024-10-14T13:27:23.198244 application/epub+zip 762320 2024-10-14T13:27:52.041107 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 677847 2024-10-14T13:27:38.724152 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 644489 2022-09-16T03:30:33.725193 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 839010 838794 2024-10-14T13:27:16.815258 2023-09-15T07:19:36.291430 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 838667 2010-11-29T11:39:47 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 314780 2010-11-29T11:39:47 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 838677 2010-11-29T11:39:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 314780 2010-11-29T11:39:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21250 2024-10-14T13:27:52.208096 application/rdf+xml 9644 2024-10-14T13:27:24.240236 image/jpeg 2846 2024-10-14T13:27:23.709232 image/jpeg 389211 2024-10-14T13:27:21.164262 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia