O Canaan!

A Novel

• Author(s): Waters Edward Turpin,
• Publisher: AMS Press
• Pages: 311
• ISBN_10: 0404114202
  ISBN_13: 9780404114206
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War I , Fiction / Literary , Fiction / War & Military , Fiction / African American & Black / General , Fiction / City Life ,

Description:... In 1916, Joe Benson leads his family and neighbors away from a ruined cotton crop in Mississippi towards the promise of a better life in the war-hungry factories of the north. Instead, they meet ephemeral success, slow failure, or abrupt doom in this struggle for human rights.