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Set in a Southern town, the narrative centers on an old family homestead whose decline mirrors personal and civic tensions over race, tradition, and justice. The story follows a household marked by an absent husband, his Northern-educated wife who rejects local slaveholding customs, and their child, tracing departures, grief, and the persistence of memory. Episodes examine lynching and extrajudicial punishment from several viewpoints, presenting legal, moral, and communal arguments without prescribing a simple verdict. Romantic complications and ethical dilemmas are woven with social observation, leaving readers to weigh competing claims of honor, pity, and authority.

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Title: Smoking flax

Author: Hallie Erminie Rives

Release date: July 22, 2022 [eBook #68586]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897

Credits: D A Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by University of California libraries)

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SMOKING FLAX

BY

Hallie Erminie Rives

 

SECOND EDITION

F. TENNYSON NEELY

PUBLISHER

LONDON    NEW YORK