Samantha Allen of Jonesville, the plain-spoken farm wife of Holley’s popular series, receives an unexpected visit from a relation on her husband’s side, and soon finds herself travelling south and considering the condition of Black Americans after Reconstruction. Her ungrammatical common sense skewers hypocrisy on every side.
Holley meant it as a plea for justice, but its dialect portraits and Kemble’s drawings carry the racial attitudes of 1892. Download the free EPUB.