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by Albion W. Tourgée (Creator)

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490 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1888

About the author

Albion Winegar Tourgée was an American soldier, lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat. Wounded in the Civil War, he relocated to North Carolina afterward, where he became involved in Reconstruction activities. He served in the constitutional convention and later in the state legislature. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association, and founded Bennett College as a normal school for freedmen in North Carolina (it has been a women's college since 1926).

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Albion Tourgee, under the pseudonym "Edgar Henry", wrote this fictional account of the peaceful separation of the North and South in 1889. Could be useful in a study of Southern and Northern sentiments during and following the Civil War as well as of the "Gilded Age."