Dred

A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781513287591
• eBook ISBN: 9781513287591
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe continued to work as a professional writer throughout her life. A tale of greed, betrayal, and rebellion, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp displays her impressive imaginative range and admirable moral outlook while illuminating aspects of early American life that would otherwise be consigned to history. Nina Gordon is a young heiress who senses a change in southern plantation culture. Living in her family's estate, she sees their land losing value through her brother's drunkenness and aversion to work. Entrusting the plantation to Harry, one of their slaves, she attempts to maintain some normalcy by accepting suitors. She soon falls for Clayton, an idealistic young man who accepts the need for social change and disdains her brother's cruel mistreatment of Harry. Outside of the estate, the Gordon family's slaves live in fear of the state's brutal slave laws alongside a family of poor whites. Despite the culture of silence holding them in place, they hear of a preacher named Dred, a maroon who leads a group of escaped slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. Is he a symbol of hope, or merely an illusion made up by greedy slavecatchers looking to collect bounties? As life on the Gordon plantation becomes more and more unbearable, the prospect of freedom seems worthy of any great risk. Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is an underappreciated masterpiece from the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most influential American novel of the nineteenth century. This edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is a classic of American children's literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• I. The Mistress of Canema
• II. Clayton
• III. The Clayton Family and Sister Anne
• IV. The Gordon Family
• V. Harry and His Wife
• VI. The Dilemma
• VII. Consultation
• VIII. Old Tiff
• IX. The Death
• X. The Preparation
• XI. The Lovers
• XII. Explanations
• XIII. Tom Gordon
• XIV. Aunt Nesbit’s Loss
• XV. Mr. Jekyl’s Opinions
• XVI. Milly’s Story
• XVII. Uncle John
• XVIII. Dred
• XIX. The Conspirators
• XX. Summer Talk at Canema
• XXI. Tiff’s Preparations
• XXII. The Worshippers
• XXIII. The Camp-Meeting
• XXIV. Life in the Swamps
• XXV. More Summer Talk
• XXVI. Milly’s Return
• XXVII. The Trial
• XXVIII. Magnolia Grove
• XXIX. The Troubadour
• XXX. Tiff’s Garden
• XXXI. The Warning
• XXXII. The Morning Star
• XXXIII. The Legal Decision
• XXXIV. The Cloud Bursts
• XXXV. The Voice in the Wilderness
• XXXVI. The Evening Star
• XXXVII. The Tie Breaks
• XXXVIII. The Purpose
• XXXIX. The New Mother
• XL. The Flight Into Egypt
• XLI. The Clerical Conference
• XLII. The Result
• XLIII. The Slave’s Argument
• XLIV. The Desert
• XLV. Jegar Sahadutha
• XLVI. Frank Russel’s Opinions
• XLVII. Tom Gordon’s Plans
• XLVIII. Lynch Law
• XLIX. More Violence
• L. Engedi
• LI. The Slave Hunt
• LII. “All Over”
• LIII. The Burial
• LIV. The Escape
• LV. Lynch Law Again
• LVI. Flight
• LVII. Clear Shining After Rain
• Appendix I. Nat Turner’s Confessions
• Appendix II.
• Appendix III. Church Action on Slavery
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher