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Shamblers
Shamblers are the walking dead of Justina Ireland's alternate history, in which the dead rise at the Battle of Gettysburg and halt the Civil War. Black and Indigenous children are made to train at combat schools to kill them. The young-adult novel deals with racial division and enslavement.1
First appeared
2018
Released 2018Source work
Dread Nation (2018)
Justina IrelandMade in
USA
What causes it
Never explained
No cause is given; the dead rise from the battlefield at Gettysburg.When did it first appear?
Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2018Released 2018
field notes
What the sources say
1
Their rising halts the American Civil War1
2
The government forces Black and Indigenous children into combat schools to fight them1
3
The heroine attends Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore1
4
Shamblers are later found being used as a source of power1
5
Won the 2019 Locus Award for best young adult novel1
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