Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life among the Freedmen

The background of this novel is that more than ten years after the American Civil War, the period of American reconstruction is coming to an end. Regarding this story that began in 1876, Deacon Atwood and Captain Black were riding along the sandy highway in the sparsely settled vicinity of Bean Island, in the State of South Carolina. What they encountered along the way reflected the intense social contradictions within the United States of that era.