COLONEL TYE: AN AMERICAN SAGA
They called him Satan.
The governor of New Jersey put a bounty on his head. Patriots double-checked their locks at night and slept with one eye open. But before he became the most feared Black commander of the American Revolution, he was just Titus - a runaway slave with a shaman's gifts, a hunted fugitive, and a coward carrying ghosts heavier than any chains.
Here's what they don't tell you about survival: sometimes it wears the same mask as cowardice. Titus learned that early, born into bondage on a New Jersey plantation where the only graduate-level course offered was "Preserving the Flesh While Killing the Soul."
Then they whipped the woman he loved to death - and made him hold the ropes.
Her blood woke something in his veins. Something primal. Something ancient. The shamanic bloodline of his African ancestors, ignited by grief and rage. That's the day the coward started his long walk toward becoming something the world wasn't ready for.
He runs north and stumbles into a world of spirits, prophecy, and the kind of war that doesn't care which side you're on as long as you bleed for it. African ancestors whisper through his dreams. A fierce Mohawk medicine man teaches him to walk between worlds - part mystic, part warrior, all survivor.
Then the Revolution erupts. While Patriots preach liberty from behind their human property, Titus becomes Colonel Tye - commander of the feared Black Brigade. In a war where former slaves and Native nations face each other across battle lines - forced to choose between devils, bleeding for a freedom neither empire intends to grant - Tye writes his own manifesto in gunpowder and steel. Freeing slaves. Spilling blood. Becoming the most dangerous man in New Jersey, and the most wanted.
But when a Judas among the freed sells his location for British gold, the man they call Satan must unleash every dark gift he's mastered to stay alive and protect his people - even if it means becoming the devil they always claimed he was.
Inspired by the true story of Revolutionary War commander Colonel Tye, Colonel Tye: An American Saga is a mythological historical epic of rebellion, prophecy, spiritual warfare, and the terrible price of freedom.
Perfect for readers of dark historical fantasy and morally complex antiheroes - fans of the spiritual journey of The Alchemist, the haunting power of Toni Morrison's Beloved, and the darkly defiant spirit of The Good Lord Bird, where history and myth walk hand in hand.
About the Author :
G. Wright is a historian, educator, and former U.S. Naval officer whose work explores the intersections of race, power, mythology, and forgotten history.
Drawing on more than twenty-five years of teaching American history, ethnic studies, race and gender studies, American cultural values, he is passionate about recovering the voices traditional narratives leave behind. Before entering education, Wright served as a U.S. Navy aviator and instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy-experiences that gave him firsthand insight into leadership, courage, and the human cost of conflict. His travels across multiple continents deepened a lifelong fascination with how history is remembered, recorded, and sometimes deliberately erased.
A graduate of the University of Iowa and National University of San Diego, Wright fuses rigorous historical research with mythological and spiritual storytelling to bring the forgotten past vividly to life.
His debut trilogy, Colonel Tye: An American Saga, reimagines the life of one of the most feared Black commanders of the American Revolution through the lens of historical fantasy. Inspired by the remarkable true story of the man New Jersey Patriots called "Satan," the series explores freedom, identity, prophecy, resistance, and the terrible price of becoming a legend.
Wright lives in Southern California, where he continues to teach, write, and unearth the hidden stories history tried to bury.
