A profound, beautifully written, heartbreaking story of tragedies caused by unthinking acceptance of nationalist and racial myths. I also found the book a real page turner as I couldn't wait to find out what happened to the oppressors and victims of the Civil War and their descendants.
' ... if John Brown got his way, I'd still want to have you working for me anyway, even as a paid man', Rawls hated this notion more than anything; that if a white man just believed they would be good in a different world, a world that did not exist, then that made them good in the one that did.'
