Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Published 1800 -1900, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Harriet Beecher Stowe In Year : 1892

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

00. Preface
01. The Mistress of Canema
02. Clayton
03. The Clayton Family and Sister Anne
04. The Gordon Family
05. Harry and his Wife
06. The Dilemma
07. Consultation
08. Old Tiff
09. The Death
10. The Preparation
11. The Lovers
12. Explanations
13. Tom Gordon
14. Aunt Nesbit's Loss
15. Mr. Jekyl's Opinions
16. Milly's Story
17. Uncle John
18. Dred
19. The Conspirators
20. Summer Talk at Canema
21. Tiff's Preparations
22. The Worshippers
23a. The Camp Meeting
23b. The Camp Meeting
24. Life in the Swamps
25. More Summer Talk
26. Milly's Return
27. The Trial
28. Magnolia Grove
29. The Troubadour
30. Tiff's Garden
31. The Warning
32. The Morning Star
33. The Legal Decision
34. The Cloud Bursts
35. The Voice in the Wilderness
36. The Evening Star
37. The Tie Breaks
38. The Purpose
39. The New Mother
40. The Flight into Egypt
41. The Clerical Conference
42. The Result
43. The Slave's Argument
44. The Desert
45. Jegar Sahadutha
46. Frank Russel's Opinions
47. Tom Gordon's Plans
48. Lynch Law
49. More Violence
50. Engedi
51. The Slave Hunt
52. ''All Over''
53. The Burial
54. The Escape
55. Lynch Law Again
56. Flight
57. Clear Shining after Rain
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III

This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting admittance into the US (Texas, Oklahoma, name the states), were vying to become slave states, threatening to spread the heinous system. While a work of fiction, the book successfully documents the horrors of the slave system, and depicts how some slaves escaped into the Dismal Swamp (a real place spreading over a million acres in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina), where they often lived for years hiding from their pursuers, often in community. Dred, one of Stowe's most unusual heroic characters, proclaims his mission as follows: ". . .the burden of the Lord is upon me . . . to show unto this people their iniquity, and be a sign unto this evil nation!'" The book depicts that slaves were not all passive victims, as so often portrayed, and had many white sympathizers, but all were caught in the grips of a legal system so stacked against them that nobody could overturn it without threats to life and limb. The book was welcomed by the anti-slavery movement in Europe as well as in America, and helped move the needle of sympathy to finally overthrowing the system. - Summary by Michele Fry