An unexpected visit from one of Josiah’s relations, his satchel full of tracts and Bibles, sends Samantha Allen of Jonesville off to the South to see the race problem for herself. In her famous misspelled country voice she pokes at hypocrisy and injustice, though the dialect portraits and Kemble’s illustrations carry the racial attitudes of 1894.
A document of how a popular humorist tried to argue for fairness in her day, read best with those limits in mind. Download the free EPUB.