Willie Surrey, a wealthy young New Yorker of Fifth Avenue society, falls in love with Francesca Ercildoune, a cultivated woman of mixed race. Their courtship tests family, friends and the abolitionist convictions of the North, and the Civil War and the violence of the 1863 draft riots show how deep the country’s prejudice ran.
A bold 1868 protest novel by a celebrated abolitionist orator, still powerful on interracial love and Northern racism. Download the free EPUB.