Length15h 45m
About this audiobook
Jean Baptiste is a hard-working man whose only dream is to make a life for himself in Dakota. However, even as a black pioneer, he is doomed to be separated from the love of his love due to racial laws prohibiting interracial marriages. Thus, to avoid the all-consuming loneliness, he instead decides to get married to Orlean. However, his new father-in-law is a nightmare from hell and although a preacher, all his attention is focused upon him rather than in the service of god. Can Baptiste survive the ordeal or will he succumb to the psychological pressures? The novel is semi-autobiographical and was also adapted into a critically acclaimed silent-era film featuring an all-Black film cast.
Extract:
"Their cognomen was Stewart, and three years had gone by since their return from Western Kansas where they had been on what they now chose to regard as a "Wild Goose Chase." The substance was, that as farmers they had failed to raise even one crop during the three years they spent there, so had in the end, therefore, returned broken and defeated to the rustic old district of Indiana where they had again taken up their residence on a rented farm. Welcomed home like the "return of the prodigal," the age old gossip of "I told you so!" had been exchanged, and the episode was about forgotten..."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length15 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Homesteader
39CHAPTER I CHICAGO—THE BOOMERANG
2EPOCH THE FIRST
40CHAPTER II THE GREAT QUESTION
3CHAPTER I AGNES
41CHAPTER III GLAVIS MAKES A PROMISE
4CHAPTER II THE HOMESTEADER
42CHAPTER IV THE GAMBLER'S STORY
5CHAPTER III AT THE SOD HOUSE
43CHAPTER V THE PREACHER'S EVIL INFLUENCE
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6CHAPTER IV SHE COULD NEVER BE ANYTHING TO HIM
44CHAPTER VI MORE OF THE PREACHER'S WORK
7CHAPTER V WHEN THE INDIANS SHOT THE TOWN UP
45CHAPTER VII A GREAT ASTRONOMER
8CHAPTER VI THE INFIDEL, A JEW AND A GERMAN
46CHAPTER VIII N. JUSTINE MC CARTHY PREACHES A SERMON
9CHAPTER VII THE DAY BEFORE
47CHAPTER IX WHAT THE PEOPLE WERE SAYING
10CHAPTER VIII AN ENTERPRISING YOUNG MAN
48CHAPTER X "UNTIL THEN"
11CHAPTER IX "CHRISTINE, CHRISTINE!"
49CHAPTER XI "IT'S THE WRONG NUMBER"
12CHAPTER X "YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE"
50CHAPTER XII MRS. PRUITT EFFECTS A PLAN
13CHAPTER XI WHAT JEAN BAPTISTE FOUND IN THE WELL
51CHAPTER XIII MRS. MERLEY
14CHAPTER XII MISS STEWART RECEIVES A CALLER
52CHAPTER XIV OH, MERCIFUL GOD, CLOSE THOU MINE EYES!
15CHAPTER XIII THE COMING OF THE RAILROAD
53CHAPTER XV "LOVE YOU—GOD, I HATE YOU!"
16CHAPTER XIV THE ADMINISTRATING ANGEL
54CHAPTER XVI A STRANGE DREAM
17CHAPTER XV OH, MY JEAN!
55EPOCH THE FOURTH
18CHAPTER XVI BILL PRESCOTT PROPOSES
56CHAPTER I THE DROUGHT
19CHAPTER XVII HARVEST TIME AND WHAT CAME WITH IT
57CHAPTER II THE FORECLOSURE
20EPOCH THE SECOND
58CHAPTER III IRENE GREY
21CHAPTER I REGARDING THE INTERMARRIAGE OF RACES
59CHAPTER IV WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
22CHAPTER II WHICH?
60CHAPTER V "TELL ME WHY YOU DIDN'T ANSWER THE LAST LETTER I WROTE YOU"
23CHAPTER III MEMORIES—N. JUSTINE MCCARTHY
61CHAPTER VI THE STORY
24CHAPTER IV ORLEAN
62CHAPTER VII HER BIRTHRIGHT "FOR A MESS OF POTTAGE"
25CHAPTER V A PROPOSAL; A PROPOSITION; A CERTAIN MRS. PRUITT—AND A LETTER
63CHAPTER VIII ACTION
26CHAPTER VI THE PRAIRIE FIRE
64CHAPTER IX GOSSIP
27CHAPTER VII VANITY
65CHAPTER X A DISCOVERY—AND A SURPRISE
28CHAPTER VIII MARRIED
66CHAPTER XI THE BISHOP'S INQUISITION
29CHAPTER IX ORLEAN RECEIVES A LETTER AND ADVICE
67CHAPTER XII THE BISHOP ACTS
30CHAPTER X EUGENE CROOK
68CHAPTER XIII WHERE THE WEAK MUST BE STRONG
31CHAPTER XI REVEREND McCARTHY PAYS A VISIT
69CHAPTER XIV THE TRIAL—THE LIE—"AS GUILTY AS HELL!"
32CHAPTER XII REVEREND MCCARTHY DECIDES TO SET BAPTISTE RIGHT, BUT—
70CHAPTER XV GRIM JUSTICE
33CHAPTER XIII THE WOLF
71CHAPTER XVI A FRIEND
34CHAPTER XIV THE CONTEST
72CHAPTER XVII THE MYSTERY
35CHAPTER XV COMPROMISED
73CHAPTER XVIII VENGEANCE IS MINE. I WILL REPAY
36CHAPTER XVI THE EVIL GENIUS
74CHAPTER XIX WHEN THE TRUTH BECAME KNOWN
37CHAPTER XVII THE COWARD
75CHAPTER XX AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING
38EPOCH THE THIRD
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