Fragments of the Ark

Peter Mango - ship pilot, husband, slave - accomplished the impossible; he stole and delivered the gunboat Swanee to the Union Navy, bringing with a group of resolute runaways united in their flight by love, and by painful histories. Set in Charleston, South Carolina from 1861 to 1868, Louise Meriwether's rich and deeply moving novel recounts the story of Peter Mango, a slave whose daring Civil War escape from Charleston to the Union Navy brings him face-to-face with his freedom, and closer still to his own soul.

Publishers Weekly

This novel from the author of Daddy Was a Numbers Runner portrays a slave's escape from Charleston, S.C., during the Civil War.

Louise Meriwether is author of six books, including the novels Daddy Was a Number Runner, Fragments of the Ark, and Shadow Dancing.