Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

LibriVox recording of Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read in English by volunteer readers. This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting admittance into the US (Texas, Oklahoma, name the states), were vying to become slave states, threatening to spread the heinous system. While a work of fiction, the book successfully documents the horrors of the slave system, and depicts how some slaves escaped into