Darkness in Dixie (The Clarence Duval Series)

You've read books about escaping from slavery. Is it possible to escape from something worse than slavery? Darkness in Dixie is the fourth book in the Clarence Duval series from veteran historian Dr. Rob Bauer. It is based on the true story of the South's prison labor system. Spring of 1899. Clarence Duval, orphaned since age six, receives word that his father is alive in Athens, Alabama. Desperate to know why the man abandoned him, Clarence goes south to learn the truth. Once in Alabama, however, Clarence gets convicted of a crime he didn't commit and punished with time in the black hole of the South's prison labor system. Sent to the forests of Florida to extract turpentine, the prisoners die weekly from the brutal conditions. Clarence's friends attempt to rescue him, but they must contend with Judge Jefferson Winston, an unrepentant former Confederate who controls the whole town of Athens. Winston, bent on restoring the glories of the Old South, will stop at nothing to do so. Darkness in Dixie sheds light on one of the ugliest chapters in US history, the use of prison labor in the South. It's a story so dark it was never supposed to come to light again. History books pass over it. It's hard to believe in happened in America. But Clarence must survive it. -- book cover.

• | Author: Robert Allan Bauer
• | Publisher: Rob Bauer Books
• | Publication Date: Nov 11, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 294 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1948478161
• | ISBN-13: 9781948478168