Title: A Fool's Errand (The John Harvard Library)
Description: A thinly veiled account of Judge Albion W. Tourgee's own career as a forceful advocate of civil rights was a bestseller in the 1880s and continues to occupy a place in the history of American literature. Judge Tourgee's reflections on the fundamental post- abolition problem of how to build a bridge from black emancipation to black equality provide readers with a clear picture of the South during the Reconstruction era. Presented as a work of fiction, this engaging and provocative work discusses Reconstruction and the many problems surrounding it.
Subjects: American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, Reconstruction, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Autobiographical fiction, Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869), Ku Klux Klan (19th century)