A black man’s entanglement with a white family leads to trouble in this historical novel set in Depression Era Mississippi. To everyone in the small town of Linville, Mississippi, Jubal Jefferson is known simply as Dummy.
Originally published in 1955, this book tells the story of General Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894), a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War.
Nevertheless, the human being is also present; and it is the tension between the prophet’s function as God’s mouthpiece, and his humanity as a patriot, that constitutes the theme of this book: he must condemn his people and his country ...