Bles Alwyn, a student at a struggling Black school in Alabama, meets Zora, a wild girl of the swamp, and together they plant a secret field of magnificent cotton. Their crop becomes the prize in a contest between Southern planters and Northern mill owners, and the story follows the pair to Washington politics and back to the land.
Du Bois’s first novel, from 1911, joining a love story to a hard analysis of race, labour and money. Download the free EPUB.