Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America--set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never ended From the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and tragedy of Jim Crow, with a new introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks The premise of Ronald Fair's short, parable-like novel, Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable (1965), is that in a rural corner of Mississippi--the fictional Jacobs...