Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman Papers, Book 5)

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Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman Papers, Book 5)

Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman Papers, Book 5)

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After a scandal involving cheating and assault, England becomes too hot for young Flashman and his father-in-law sends him off. Flashman suddenly realizes that he’s on a slave ship captained by a lunatic bound for Africa to take on a cargo of slaves, and he’s horrified. Not so much about slavery but that running slaves is proscribed in 1848 and he’s fearful of the ship being seized by an in­ter­dict­ing navy. They transport a cargo to the Americas but offload it before being captured by the U.S. Navy. Flashman manages to pose as a Royal Navy spy, then escapes before having to give testimony. He flees up the Missis­sip­pi in a variety of guises; re­luc­tant­ly escorting escaped slaves; subsequently becoming a slavedriv­er himself for a while before the slaveowner has Flashman sold into slavery; escaping across a frozen river to be saved from slave­catch­ers by Con­gress­man Abraham Lincoln; before ending up in a New Orleans courtroom. Flash for Freedom begins with Flashman considering an attempt at being made a Member of Parliament and continues through his involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, the Underground Railroad, and meeting a future president, detailing his life from 1848 to 1849. It also contains a number of notes by Fraser, in the guise of editor, giving additional historical information on the events described. What I found most interesting about this book was that it got into the international politics of slave trading. It was allowable to own slaves in America, but slave trading itself had been outlawed and was punishable by death. Consequently, when Flashman finds out he's on a slave trading vessel, he's horrified not for moral reasons, but because he's worried about being caught and hanged.

Another memory I have is of my mom and I going to an ATM to withdraw cash. Here in South Korea, many ATMs are equipped with an automated voice system that says things like, “Thank you for your transaction. Our bank will do its best to provide its customers with the best services.” On the way home, my mom whispered to me, “Seongmin, the person behind the machine must be really tired having to say the same message all day long to each person while sitting in such a small box.” George Hiscoe and Thomas Little - A pair of slave traders who Flashman is given to by the Mandevilles, charged with delivering him and Cassy to a plantation. Both are killed by Cassy in the course of their escape. Another scene that stood out was when Cassy, the light-skinned slave with whom he had fled the Mississippi River Valley aboard a steamboat, says good-bye to Flashman in Ohio before departing for Canada: urn:lcp:flashforfreedom0000fras_x5o9:lcpdf:f595d143-f0b3-46f8-9e8e-82c366930b70 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier flashforfreedom0000fras_x5o9 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8zb0091n Invoice 1652 Isbn 0006176798 joke relating to the feud between Trinity and Balliol Colleges in Oxford (too politically-incorrect,given the treatment he received at his hands. Yet his full story would surely be a fascinating one. The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next Wonderful and scandalous. Publishers Weekly Lady Caroline Lamb - A slave transported by the Balliol College whom Flashman "covers" and to whom he teaches some English and (to startle Spring) Latin phrases. Flashman gives her the name of a famous British aristocrat. By the third book you'd think it would have been pounded into my skull that Flashman is Not a Nice Person. Usually in fiction the lovable scoundrel eventually does something altruistic, but Flashman is consistently horrible. I'm not surprised when he fails to be moved by the suffering around him, unless it inconveniences him, but I keep expecting him to get sentimental about one of the women he becomes involved with. It still startles me that while he occasionally admits to fond feelings, he never even hesitates to betray or abandon one of them to save his own skin.

urn:oclc:record:1391529820 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier flashforfreedomf0000fras Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s20xrgtr1v7 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0214653587 Lccn 70870009 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9801 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA409386 Openlibrary_edition The author of the famous Flashman Papers and the Private McAuslan stories, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition to his novels he has also written numerous films, most notably The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, and the James Bond film, Octopussy. Flash for Freedom" is the most outrageous novel I've ever read. It is dynamite - indeed, if you submitted this today to any New York publisher they would treat it like dynamite and probably call the authorities. At a minimum, you would be cancelled. It’s all tremendous stuff, full of the usual (on Fraser’s part) erudition and wit and (on Flashy’s part) lechery, as well as, of course, the historical tweaking: Flashman meets a young Disraeli, a young Lincoln, and even serves as the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous book. Superb historical parody, historical fiction, and pure entertainment all in one. Oh, a final thought: Flashy’s definitely gotten a lot braver since the first book. Scared or not, it takes guts to pull a gun on a killer, or even keep one’s wits enough to play-act in the face of danger. That’s most likely a good thing, of course; as a reader, one can take only so much helpless, quivering terror from the narrator.Authoritarian Alliances: How Russia and China are Propping Up Dictators and Undermining Democracy in Latin America



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