Nine years after marching off to fight the British, Perez Hamlin comes home to Stockbridge in the Berkshires to find his neighbours jailed for debt and the gentry tighter than ever. When the farmers rise in 1786, Perez is thrust into leadership and the village’s social order is turned upside down.
A sympathetic novel of Shays’ Rebellion by the author of Looking Backward, alert to the class conflict behind it. Download the free EPUB.