The Foxes of Harrow | 
pickPoor Irish immigrant Stephen Fox gains a plantation but is conflicted about slavery as he ages. Read of it in “Race, Politics, and Irish America“ & was intrigued because Yerby was Black & Irish, which makes for a complicated depiction of an Irish planter. A 1946 bestseller - swashbuckling adventure & racy romances abound - that's often compared to “Gone with the Wind“, but the latter's “happy“ plantation is VERY different to Yerby's Black rebels.
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