Forsaking All Others: A True Story of Interracial Sex and Revenge in the 1880s South

by Charles F. Robinson

An intensely dramatic true story, Forsaking All Others recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted, in defiance of
society's laws and conventions, to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge.

From the mid-1870s to the early 1880s, Isaac...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572337249
• ISBN13: 9781572337244
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.5"