294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

"Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master". -- Chicago Daily News

Part 1 The Voting; A Chapter 1 How Gideon Jackson Came Home from the Voting; Chapter 2 How Gideon Jackson and Brother Peter Talked Together; Chapter 3 How Gideon Jackson Went to Charleston and the Adventures That Befell Him on the Way; Chapter 4 How Gideon Jackson Labored with Both His Hands and His Head; Chapter 5 How Gideon Jackson Was a Guest of Honor at a Great Affair; Chapter 6 How Gideon Jackson Went Home to His People; Chapter 7 How Gideon Jackson Journeyed Far Afield and How He Made Both a Bargain and a Choice; Part 2 The Fighting; Chapter 8 How Gideon Jackson Went to See a Tired Man; Chapter 9 How Gideon Jackson and His Son Came Once More to Carwell; Chapter 10 How Gideon Jackson Fought the Good Fight; An Afterword; Documents of the Reconstruction Era;

Biography

Howard Fast, W.E.B. Du Bois, Eric Foner