Title	The African and his "natural protector"
Description	Former slave in talks with a former master whose continued paternal and patriarchal spirit is supposedly expressed in his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan.
Historical Note	Albion Winegar Tourgee championed the civil rights of blacks in the Reconstruction South. He used his position as judge and his training as a writer to advance radical Reconstruction policy and Negro rights. He supported political, legal and economic reform in the face of racial conflict and Ku Klux Klan violence. His crowning literary achievements were his two Reconstruction novels of social criticism, A Fool's Errand and Bricks Without Straw.
Subjects - TGM	Race relations; Conversation; City & town life
Subjects - LCSH	Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Date	1880
Creator	Tourgee, Albion Winegar, 1838-1905
Collection Name	A Fool's Errand and The Invisible Empire
Owning Institution	Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#	34014
Digital Type	Still Image
Digital Format	TIFF
Publisher	Fords, Howard & Hulbert
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Place of Publication	New York (N.Y.)
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