A Fool's Errand
A Fool's Errand: A Novel of the South During Reconstruction
Albion W. Tourgee,
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN: 1596055995
DDC: 813
Edition: Paperback; 2005-11-01
Summary:
There had been rumors in the air, for some months, of a strangely
mysterious organization, said to be spreading over the Southern
States, which added to the usual intangibility of the secret society
an element of the grotesque superstition unmatched in the history of
any other.... Here and there throughout the South, by a sort of
sporadic instinct, bands of ghostly horsemen, in quaint and horrible
guise, appeared, and admonished the lazy and trifling of the African
race... -from "Chapter XXVII: A New Institution" Subtitled "A Novel
of the South During Reconstruction," this 1879 bestseller, by a
participant in that great social experiment, is the barely
fictionalized account of the career of a Northern lawyer in North
Carolina after the Civil War. A champion of the poor and landless of
any race, and a keen observer of the dilemmas facing uneducated
Negroes in the postwar period, Tourgée offers us an important
eyewitness account of one of the most tumultuous eras of American
history, one that continues to influence the course of the American
experiences of race and class to this day. American abolitionist and
lawyer ALBION W. TOURGÉE (1838-1905) also wrote Figs and Thistles
(1879).
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