Fowler wanted to tell the main events in the history of his race from the anti-slavery agitation through the Civil War and into freedom, and chose to do it through a representative heroine. Her tale of love, travel, war and peace becomes a frame for discussions of emancipation, the war and Black progress in the decades that followed.
An unusual blend of novel and history written from within the African American community at the turn of the century. Download the free EPUB.
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