Title: This violent land
First published: 2007
Description: "Historical fiction based on journals and correspondence of William Stone, Union veteran and head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Aiken, South Carolina, during Reconstruction. Major Stone's story involves violence, prejudice, politics, compassion, justice, and romance. The Ku Klux Klan, freed blacks, Edgefield plantation owners, and Quaker educators all play roles"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Fiction, Politics and government, Race relations, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), South Carolina, United States, United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Fiction, historical, general, South carolina, fiction
Places: South Carolina
People: William Stone (1842-1897)
Time periods: 1865-1950
LC classification: PS3610.O3745 T48 2007