Mixing romances and realities, Earle sketches the old plantation country around Narragansett Bay: an elopement, the local weavers, the corner where three towns meet, a witch sheep, a noon-house, and the enslaved and free Black Rhode Islanders who elected their own governors. Their dialect is rendered as the period heard it.
Colonial social history with a storyteller’s touch; its racial portrayals are those of 1898. Download the free EPUB.