Follow the Drinking Gourd

First printing stated. Full blue cloth binding with gilt lettering, 8-1/4" x 5-1/2", 270 pp. Book quite nice except for a splash stain to the length of the foredge. The splash also got part of the rear panel of the jacket; front joint of the jacket has two small holes, probably insect damage, original price of $2.50 intact. Not perfect, but a good solid copy of an uncommon book of slavery, and the first in the author's semi-trilogy of novels; this one describes " life on an Alabama plantation in no such romantic terms. John Austen, a Georgia planter, is forced to move his family of slaves to a new location on Alabama after the old Georgia farmland has ceased to be productive and driven him into debt. But the project is ill-fated. Austen has to deal with an endless succession of problems: disease, unpredictable weather, incompetent overseers, lonesomeness and homesickness among the slaves, and a Yankee abolitionist who only increases their discontent with his talk about "freedom."' (Chapter16.org)

Product Info

Publisher: Macmillan

Year: 1940

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: United States