Fields of Pain

Cotton Field to Battlefield

By: Nigel Seed

Narrated by: Kevin Harris

It is 1860. The men and women who run from human bondage in the southern USA know only too well the inconceivable brutality that awaits them, if they are captured. Silas Carter draws on all his reserves of courage and puts his life on the line to escape the horror of slavery by riding the Underground Railroad. His courage is called on again as the Civil War breaks out in1861. He supports the Union and fights on the bloody battlefields to free his people from their savage enslavement on the Fields of Pain.

©2022 Nigel Seed (P)2025 Nigel Seed

Historical Fiction: Underground Railroad to Civil War

The trials and tribulations of slave Silas Carter were very interesting. I learned more about the Underground Railroad and was delighted to see Harriet Tubman appear in the story.

I especially enjoyed hearing the book narrated by Kevin Harris. He did an excellent job creating easily identifiable voices for so many characters. The book itself was told by Silas Carter, the main character, so hearing the story narrated by an African-American who gave Silas such a strong voice was especially gratifying.

I had less interest in the book when it turned into more of a story about the Civil War versus Silas Carter's journey. I'm not a fan of battle scenes or military history. It was the Silas Carter who made the story interesting.