Abstract:
This legendary story about the deep south during the Civil War era, and by a southerner whose writing style far surpasses any other southern author, leaves no stones unturned as he tells of how freed-slaves were mistreated, and cheated by their former-masters, when they began tending the plantations as sharecroppers.
Inspired by tall tales, rumors, folklore, and facts that have been handed through many generations by word of mouth, it is one of the most unique, informative, and down to earth accounting of the way that former Negro slaves were actually treated by white persons, just because they were “black.”