In an old house on Meeting Street in Charleston, the widowed Orville Burgoyne and his family live through the Civil War and its aftermath, while the troubled young Mara struggles against the influences that have shaped her. Love, faith and Reconstruction come to a crisis when the earthquake of 1886 shakes the city.
A popular moral novel of its day; its dialect portraits of Black characters reflect the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.
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