Local Author Visit: John Poniske

Meet local author and historian John Poniske and enjoy a dramatic reading from his latest book!

Sundering Slavery, the seventh installment in John Poniske’s sweeping Snakebit Series, continues the epic journey through America’s darkest conflict where ordinary families and towering figures alike are forever changed by the Civil War.

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“A Nation Divided. Families Torn. A War That Changes Everything.

It is the bloody second year of the Civil War. Gettysburg has fallen. Vicksburg is gone. The Confederacy reels, yet Jefferson Davis refuses to surrender.

In West Maryland, two neighboring families embody the nation’s fracture. The McCunes, slave-owners divided among themselves, clash with the abolitionist Garretts, who question whether war is the only path to freedom.

As the war rages, African American soldiers shock a divided nation by taking up arms, altering the fate of slavery forever.”