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Dred is the story of Nina Gordon, an impetuous young heiress to a large southern plantation, whose land is rapidly becoming worthless. It is run competently by one of Nina's slaves, Harry, who endures a murderous rivalry with Nina's brother Tom Gordon, a drunken, cruel slaveowner.
Jun 30, 2017 · Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Summary. Harriet Beecher Stowe published Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1856 as a follow up to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), the most successful and controversial abolitionist tract ever written. Dred is set in Chowan County, near the Great Dismal Swamp.
Jun 30, 2017 · Title: Dred A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Author: Harriet beecher Stowe Release Date: June 30, 2017 [EBook #55012] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRED *** Produced by David Edwards, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ...
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert S. Levine (Editor) 3.69. 196 ratings17 reviews. Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Southerners and black abolitionists.
Born: June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S. Died: July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut (aged 85, died on this day) Awards And Honors: Hall of Fame (1910) Notable Works: “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”. “A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.
English. Book, illustrated cloth binding. Printer's information from colophon. Preface by Stowe dated August 21, 1856. Appendices (p. 415-445) contain newspaper articles and other materials supporting fictionalized incidents in the book. Publisher's advertisements on verso t.p. and p. [1] at end. 18. Addeddate.
