
"We tried to superimpose the civilization, the idea of the North, upon the South at a moment's warning ... It was a Fool's Errand." The year is 1865 and the war between the states of North and South has ended. Comfort Servosse, a Union officer, has decided to make his life in...

There had been rumors in the air, for some months, of a strangely mysterious organization, said to be spreading over the Southern States, which added to the usual intangibility of the secret society an element of the grotesque superstition unmatched in the history of any other......

What was a carpetbagger? Albion W. Tourg?e was called one, and he wrote, "To the southern mind it meant a scion of the North, a son of an 'abolitionist, ' a creature of the conqueror, a witness to their defeat, a mark of their degradation: to them he was hateful, because he...



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"A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools" - After the American Civil War, Comfort Servosse, a Yankee gentleman, decides to purchase a Southern Plantation for himself and his family. But unlike other white owners, Servosse is actually interested in the well-being of his black subjects...


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This novel was initially printed in 1880 anonymously as A Fool's Errand, by 'One of the Fools.' (Albion Winegar Tourg e, an Ohio native of French Huguenot descent.) A blend of political commentary intertwined around a plot including murder, mystery, and romance, the book relies...








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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely...
