After emancipation, Nimbus Ware, a formerly enslaved farmer, and Eliab Hill, a disabled preacher and teacher, set out to build a self-supporting Black community in the South. A young Northern schoolteacher, Mollie Ainslie, comes to help, and the planter Hesden Le Moyne is forced to choose sides as night riders turn their violence on the freedmen.
A powerful novel of Reconstruction by a Union veteran and civil-rights lawyer who saw it at first hand. Download the free EPUB.
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