Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

The Great Dismal Swamp is a real place, a drowned forest of black water and cypress on the Virginia line, and for generations it hid people the law called property. Into it Harriet Beecher Stowe sends Dred, a fugitive who has made the wilderness his pulpit, son of the Charleston conspirator Denmark Vesey, speaking in the borrowed thunder of Isaiah and waiting for the sign that will bring judgment out of the trees.