TY - ABST T1 - Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable Y1 - 1965 A1 - Ronald L. Fair (b. 1932) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in one dystopian county in Mississippi created through the machinations of a corrupt lawyer and an equally corrupt judge, killing or driving out the indigenous population, and re-establishing what amounted to slavery after the Civil War, a system that continued to the time of the novel. When the Federal government finally tries to bring change to the county, the federal marshals are thrown in jail. At this point, the Negroes revolt, burn down the town, and kill most of the tormentors while saving the white women and children. The title refers to the thousands of Negroes who had been killed previously. 

PB - Harcourt, Brace & World CY - New York U5 -

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