Little Hu: The boy who planned to be governor of Louisiana

by Sue Eakin

158 pages, Unknown Binding

First published December 1, 1994

About the author

Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin, known as Sue Eakin, was an American historian, professor and journalist from Bunkie, Louisiana. She specialized in Louisiana history, particularly the Old South plantation system. Eakin is best known for documenting, annotating, and reviving interest in the 1853 Twelve Years a Slave, a slave narrative by Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.