The Blood of Heaven (57 page)
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Authors: Kent Wascom
Above all, to white-bearded Anansi, benefactor and friend beyond compare, to whom no praise or thanks will do justice: I am forever in your debt.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Though I have strayed far from history in telling the story of Angel Woolsack, who did not exist, much of his world and those who inhabit it did. I am indebted to countless contemporary sources, the often contradictory facts of which I have embellished or obscured, but would be remiss to not acknowledge the modern scholars whose works served as inspiration and guide to this imagined history, namely: Stanley Clisby Arthur,
The Story of the Kemper Brothers
(1933) and
The Story of the West Florida Rebellion
(1935); William C. Davis,
The Rogue Republic
(2011); Ross Phares,
Reverend Devil: Master Criminal of the Old South
(1941); David A. Bice,
The Original Lone Star Republic
(2004); Andro Linklater,
An Artist in Treason: the Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson
(2009); Nancy Isenberg,
Fallen Founder: the Life of Aaron Burr
(2007).
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