In the North Carolina town of Wellington, the newspaper editor Major Carteret and his allies plot to drive Black citizens from public life, while his wife refuses to acknowledge her half-sister Janet, married to a Black doctor. Family secrets, a murder charge and a political campaign converge in a massacre modelled on the Wilmington violence of 1898.
A courageous novel by one of the first major African American novelists, written only three years after the events it depicts. Download the free EPUB.
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