My young master

My Young Master is an 1896 novel by Opie Read (1852-1939), the Tennessee-born humorist who edited the Arkansaw Traveler before turning to fiction. The story is told by Dan, an enslaved man raised alongside the Kentucky planter’s son he serves, and follows the two men through the years that lead into the Civil War. Read was one of the best-selling American storytellers of the 1890s, and the book shows the plantation-fiction conventions of its decade through which the era’s readers met the Old South. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.