A young traveller who adores the Mississippi boards a steamboat at New Orleans, witnesses a reckless race between rival boats and saves the life of the heiress Eugénie Besançon. At her plantation he falls in love with Aurore, a beautiful quadroon held as a slave, and is drawn into intrigue, an auction and danger in the bayous.
A romantic adventure that inspired Boucicault’s The Octoroon; its treatment of slavery and race is that of 1856. Download the free EPUB.