Description
Lafcadio Hearn: First Edition, Youma, the story of a west-Indian slave, published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1890.
In good/fair condition. In Youma , one of Hearn’s early works, he is exploring the affect of the color-line on the sustaining and collapse of West Indian slavery. Through this short novel, Hearn shows us how deeply intimate the black and white world were intertwined under slavery.
This book, 193 pages, is bound in a patterned calico cloth quite unique.