The English travel writer Stephen Graham journeyed through the American South after the First World War to ask what had become of the freedom John Brown died for. He describes sharecropping and the debts it creates, lynching, segregation and the lives of Black Americans in towns and on cotton farms, weighing the gap between American ideals and Southern practice.
A vivid outsider’s report on race in the post-war South, with assumptions of its own that are of 1920. Download the free EPUB.