The fifth Elsie book finds Elsie Dinsmore Travilla a devoted mother, guiding her children by Scripture and gentle firmness in the South of 1867-68. Finley drew on the Congressional investigation of the Ku Klux Klan for night raids that threaten the family and their neighbours; the book’s attitudes to freed slaves are those of its 1876 evangelical author.
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