Young Nina Gordon, mistress of the Carolina plantation Canema, is courted by the reform-minded lawyer Edward Clayton while her enslaved half-brother Harry runs the estate. Hidden in the Great Dismal Swamp lives Dred, a fugitive and visionary who dreams of insurrection, and Stowe sets his prophetic fury against the law and religion that protect slavery.
Stowe’s second anti-slavery novel of 1856, angrier than Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with dialect and racial portraits typical of its day. Download the free EPUB.