Library of Southern civilization

Drums at Dusk is a story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791. The novel explores the complex web of tensions connecting wealthy plantation owners, poor whites, free people of color, and the slaves who stunned the colony and the globe by uniting in a carefully planned uprising.

First published in 1864, Marcia is the story of Irene and Electra, two Confederate women who struggle to find their place in a society where so many men have left to fight the war.