Seeing the religious devotion of Paul, his often soiled, quick-to-cruelness master, and believing Christianity to be a pathway to better treatment for those enslaved, Amos approaches Paul, offering to bring the Word to those held captive on the plantation. In each other, Isaiah and Samuel find a love that brings peace to the hearts of the many enslaved people on the plantation, until they are betrayed by a fellow enslaved man, Amos. The central story that comes is anchored by Isaiah and Samuel, two enslaved boys on the Halifax plantation, also known as Empty. Speaking are seven voices who, in a prologue of sorts, usher readers into the world of “The Prophets.” “The Prophets” opens with a direct address, or maybe an address that speaks right past you depending on who you are: I wanted to be good to myself and hopefully fair to a book I arrived at with baggage and implications. I double-checked my wounds before I entered Jones’s novel, wanting to be aware of where I was numb and where raw. What of me, of us, was I to witness in “The Prophets,” the debut novel of Robert Jones Jr., set on an antebellum plantation in Mississippi? And even when you know it’s coming, the blood’s still warm and sharp. Instead, it’s often a jagged glass you catch yourself in before it catches you. Meeting yourself in media is no guarantee that the mirror will be kind or wanted.
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I’ll never forget my mother’s hour of tears after she saw the film adaptation of “The Hate U Give.” Or the row of us waiting stone still in the movie theater, trying to steady our weeping, like a pew at a well-cast funeral, after seeing “Fruitvale Station.” Or my stepfather’s stern shoulders broken down by “Selma” or the real nightmares of water and scars after “Beloved” or the movies, books, shows avoided because “I can’t really handle another slavery thing right now.” Today, Marlin, which was acquired by Remington in 2007, no longer makes a centerfire semi-auto but continues to market their seemingly everlasting Model 60 and 795 rimfire self-loaders.For me, for you, for us, Black historical fiction can salt real wounds both fresh and inherited. By 2000, the guns were discontinued as Marlin ceded the pistol caliber carbine market to Ruger and Hi-Point. Price in Marlin’s 1999 catalog, the last time the gun was carried, listed the Camp Carbines in both models with a retail of $459. In 1990, Marlin discontinued the optional 20-rounder and began shipping the Model 9 with a four-shot magazine before settling on a 10-round mag in 1995. The Model 45 used a 7-round M1911-style single stack. Of note, the magazine of the Marlin Model 9 could be swapped out for S&W Model 59 double stack pistol mags, which are common. The stock came standard with a rubber rifle butt pad and swivel studs.
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The action included a manual bolt hold-open with an automatic last-shot bolt hold-open and a loaded chamber indicator. 45ACP-caliber Model 45 starting in 1986, and both were marketed as Marlin’s “Self-Loading Camp Carbine.”ĭrilled and tapped for a scope and fitted with adjustable folding rear leaf sights with a ramp front, later generations of the Camp Carbine came standard with a high-viz orange front post covered by a Wide-Scan cutaway hood. Shipping with a 12- or optional 20-shot detachable magazine, the Model 9 was augmented by the. Using a 16.5-inch Micro-Groove barrel and a machined steel receiver that was sandblasted to prevent glare, the gun’s overall length was 35.5-inches while it tipped the scales at around 6.75-pounds– very near the size of an M1 Carbine. With styling that gave a nod to the military surplus M1 Garand and Carbine, the Model 9 had what was billed as a Garand-type safety and a one-piece walnut finished press checkered Maine birch stock.
Now entering the 20th anniversary of their retirement, Marlin‘s handy little centerfire pistol caliber Camp Carbine models still deliver even as they become more collectible.įirst introduced in 1985 with the Model 9, Marlin’s neat little 9mm semi-auto rifles were pitched as durable and compact guns that were ready to tag along to the field. The Marlin Camp Carbine debuted in 1985 just in time for the company’s 115th Anniversary.
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