Kenneth Harper, trained in medicine in the North, comes home to a small Georgia town to practise, convinced that skill and patience will let him avoid trouble with the white community. His brother Bob is less patient, and as Kenneth sees what the sharecroppers around him endure, he is drawn into organising them, with consequences he cannot control.
A powerful 1924 novel of lynching and resistance by the NAACP leader, an early landmark of the Harlem Renaissance. Download the free EPUB.