Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will

by Gene Stowe (Author), Carl A . Sergio (Illustrator)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $29.61

  In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter. Revealing the details of this case and of the lives of the people involved in it, Gene Stowe presents a story that sheds light on and complicates our understanding of the Jim Crow South.